08/09/2026
What you’re looking at is our 2026 Nebbiolo.
The growing season began unusually cool. Then, before veraison…the onset of ripening…an unprecedented heat event hit our vineyard. We knew it was coming. We took every precaution available to us to protect our fruit.
The result is what you see here. We lost the fruit.
There’s a certain amount of unpredictability you accept when you grow grapes. Weather has always been part of it. But climate change is altering that equation. The extremes are greater, the patterns less reliable, and sometimes the conditions exceed what even a carefully farmed vineyard can withstand.
This was one of those times.
There is disappointment in losing the Nebbiolo, but there is also a very real business consequence. By the time a crop is lost, money has already been spent growing it. And as a small-production estate winery, we don’t simply source replacement fruit and keep going. A loss in the vineyard becomes a loss in production and, ultimately, revenue.
It’s an interesting contradiction in wine. We spend years talking about vintages after they’re made, what the weather did, how the fruit developed, how the wine expresses that particular year.
But first, the vintage has to survive the vineyard.
We know the risks. That knowledge doesn’t soften the disappointment when one of them becomes reality.
What it does do is remind us why we’re willing to take those risks: we care deeply about the grapes we farm and the wines we produce.
Some vintages will eventually tell their story from the bottle.
The 2026 Nebbiolo tells its story from the vineyard.
