Rhys Vineyards

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Three Barrels from the Third Leaf

Rhys Vineyards Mt. Pajaro Vineyard Chenin Blanc 2016 · California, USA · tasted 7 June 2021

A Pinot Noir specialist plants a few rows of Chenin Blanc on shale above Monterey Bay, and the very first wine off the new site is not Pinot at all. Seventy-five cases, from vines in their third season.

A Burgundy Obsessive in the Santa Cruz Mountains

Rhys Vineyards Alpine Vineyard Pinot Noir Santa Cruz Mountains 2006 · Santa Cruz Mountains, USA · tasted 18 February 2021

Kevin Harvey planted Pinot Noir in his backyard on an old Christmas-tree farm and decided the Santa Cruz Mountains could do what Burgundy does. The Alpine Vineyard 2006 is from the years when that was still a theory.