How do your methods differ from some of the older, more traditional models?Īdam: We strive to make terroir-driven wines that express the site, which requires a noninterventionist approach in the cellar. You're one of the younger winemakers out there, but winemaking is an age-old process. It's a beautiful, energetic place, and the wines should reflect that.' Light mineral-rich soils cool, salty, crisp breeze clear blue skies. We get a cool breeze every afternoon, either from the Bay or from the Pacific through the Petaluma Gap. Our vines grown on the lower slope of Arrowhead Mountain in light volcanic tufa soils and down into the clay loams of the Carneros flats. The Scribe farm is located at a crossroads, between Sonoma and Napa Counties, and where Arrowhead Mountain dies into the San Pablo Bay (the northern part of the San Francisco Bay).

We also planted Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, the gems of our region. We planted Sylvaner and Riesling as on ode to the original growers. No one made wine here again until we arrived, so in one sense, Scribe has been a revival of this old historic vineyard: new, but rooted in the past.