“Winemaking involves a great many small decisions, each affecting the next. One can only hope to get them all right, to capture what was in the grapes to begin with.”

- Bruno Giacosa

Belief in the fruit is the foundation of how we craft wine at Ceritas. To this end our focus is on the details that we and our growers attend to during the year to produce grapes that are physiologically ripe and balanced to clearly express time and place.

Working with great sites comes first, and we spend far more time in the vineyard than in the winery. Thereafter we trust that the fruit has its own path, determined by the site and the vintage, and strive for its expression to be as fully realized as possible and not obscured by the signature of our methods. 

This trust humbly recognizes that much is beyond our ability to comprehend and control and that it’s vital to have the faith not to jump in, to know when the best course is to do nothing. 

While we do favor certain methods as they have proven best for expressing site through varietal, our winemaking is flexible rather than dogmatic, inspired by the great traditional winemakers like Roumier, Roulot, Giacosa, Gentaz, people who have demonstrated over time that the voice of the land and season are what is important, rather than shaping the wine through processes.