2024 Stolo Vineyard Syrah
This is how Syrah would taste if it were grown in the Jura. Light bodied with explosive aroma of black pepper, sage, olive and juniper. Slightly reduced notes of leather with hints at elderberry, and black raspberry. A California unicorn.
The 4.2-acre Stolo Vineyard is organically, dry-farmed and lies just a stone’s throw from the ocean in Cambria. Two out of three mornings, it is covered in cool, ocean fog from the nearby Pacific. The temperature rarely reaches 80° F and harvest is in November, placing it at the very spear tip of cold-climate California viticulture. Farmed by sommelier turned avant-garde, farmer-winemaker Raj Parr, using the same regenerative and biodynamic practices developed at his adjacent sister property Phelan Farms.
Vineyard:
Year Planted: 2008
Vine Spacing: 7’ x 4’
Soil: sandstone / illuvial clay loam
Clones: Alban 1, 383, 470
Elevation: 140 ft
Wine:
Appellation: SLO Coast
Alcohol: 12.0%
Stems: 20%
French Oak: 100% Neutral
Yeast: Wild
Cases: 118