Located on the east-facing, mid-slopes of Spring Mountain, this site began its growing season on April 19th. Although bloom occurred at the beginning of June, it yielded a healthy fruit set. Morning sunshine nurtured the crop through summer, and a final warming event in the last week of September brought the fruit to ripeness. Harvest began on October 2nd and, after 17 distinct passes, concluded ten days later.

Dense and dark, yet dappled with exuberant points of light, the wine combines forest notes with piercing radiance. The pronounced backbone of tannin buoys an abundance of detail, and whilelike the shadowy turn in a wooded path that leads to a clearingthese elements seem to taper briefly, they open once again onto an effulgent, lifted finish.