We work with a lot of small, family-owned, boutique-y wineries and they all tend to say the same thing: we’re small, family-owned and boutique-y. The more we sit with those clients, the more we’re able to peel back the layers and find the thing differentiates them, the thing that’s meaningful and true. In this case, it was the owner’s spiritual relationship with their vineyards that defined their farming practices and, in turn, their business. The garden analogy that we arrived at was both symbolic and real.

A vineyard is a garden if you farm it like one.
A vineyard is a garden if you farm it like one.

 

The garden is a place where we meet nature halfway.
The garden is a place where we meet nature halfway.

 

“Unlike Napa where all the trappings are conspicuously on display, Sonoma is where people come to farm.”
“Unlike Napa where all the trappings
are conspicuously on display,
Sonoma is where people come to farm.”

 

“We’re not just managing a crop, we’re managing an ecosystem where every bird and bee, every worm, is integral to the whole.”
“We’re not just managing a crop,
we’re managing an ecosystem where
every bird and bee, every worm,
is integral to the whole.”

 

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