About

We started making wine in 2005 with a simple conviction: that the northern California coast was capable of producing wines as profound and site-specific as anywhere in the world. Nearly two decades later, that conviction has only deepened.

Our team is small by design. Led by founder John Raytek, we are a collective of people who have chosen to root ourselves in this landscape, not as visitors passing through, but as participants in it. We ride our bikes through these hills. We surf in these waters. We take our kids mushroom foraging in the fog-drenched conifers. The coast is not our subject matter. It is our home.

We allow each vineyard to be our teacher, with us as the students. This is not a posture. It is a daily practice. Every vintage asks new questions. Every site reveals something we didn't know the season before. We have come to understand that the most important work happens long before harvest, in the quiet and cumulative act of listening to the land and responding honestly to what it tells us.

We are obsessed with the traditions of winemaking. Fanatically devoted to excellence. Insatiably curious about what these particular places, farmed with this level of care, attention, and humility, are truly capable of producing.

Our wines come from sites not shared by many, and in some cases by anyone. They are not built. They are uncovered, vintage by vintage, site by site, by a team that has chosen to spend its working life getting out of the way of something extraordinary.