Three vineyards, one wine. Lucia Spring 2016 Release
The uncommon story behind our Santa Lucia Highlands Pinot Noir and Chardonnay cuvées and the Spring 2016 release of Lucia wines.
The uncommon story behind our Santa Lucia Highlands Pinot Noir and Chardonnay cuvées and the Spring 2016 release of Lucia wines.
Gary Pisoni has plenty of drive, whether steering the iconic 1968 Willy’s Jeep or the future of Pisoni Vineyards.
Labels denote a unique time and sense of place, in this case announcing the 2013 vintage of Lucia wines from Garys’ Vineyard. You can find the Santa Lucia Highlands on a map, with Garys’ Vineyard slicing across part of its benchland. But you must open a bottle to discover the exceptional aspects of this site and the distinctive caring that have shaped these Pinot Noir and Syrah wines.
Farming Is What We Do. The alarm goes off at 4:30 a.m. Every morning. Mark Pisoni needs his sleep. He hopes the diesel pump motor on the south side of his old farmhouse hums regularly throughout the night, while pumping well water to irrigate the vegetable fields of Pisoni Farms.
If Gary Pisoni had followed the common wisdom, he and sons Mark and Jeff would not be celebrating three decades of farming cool-climate grapes and the beautiful vintage of 2012 Pisoni Estate Pinot Noir, Pisoni Estate Chardonnay, and Lucia Susan’s Hill Syrah.