This appellation field blend hails from our two Mendocino Ridge sites both planted in 1998. The Perli Vineyard is 10 miles from the ocean and is perched at 2,400 feet above sea level on a steep east facing slope. Perli has the oldest field selection known to California that was propagated in 1880 by the San Jose Mission. The Valenti Ranch is a mid elevation (1250-1400ft) site on top of Greenwood Ridge, six miles from the ocean, also on a steep east face. We’ve co-fermented a small percentage of Grenache, Mourvedre and Viognier in this cool climate blend leaning mostly to Syrah, so not a traditional GSM. The soils are a mélange of ancient oceanic sedimentary materials that include gravelly sand loams with high Iron content, rocky quartzite, decomposed sandstone and shale with varying levels of clay.