… One in which nature’s surprises are viewed as opportunities to better understand our environment and its influences, as well as our relationship with it.
By definition, a “burl” is an imperfection on a tree, a defense response to a variety of triggers, such as injury, bacteria, or hormonal fluctuation. We see beauty in these incongruities and have named our wine accordingly — in a spirit of curiosity that celebrates the complex splendor of the natural world.
Imagine if a bottle of wine could point us towards a stronger, more symbiotic Earth …
After all, like trees forming a burl, grapes have extraordinary reactions to environmental stressors: Under pressure, they produce secondary metabolites. Also called phytonutrients (generalized as antioxidants), these compounds play a key role in the plant’s defenses. At the same time, they provide humans with vital nutrition — and form the foundation of flavors that characterize the world’s premier wines.
We share our experiments, successes, failures, ideas, and the beauty of the estate with our community — with the aspiration of opening a path to a more holistically balanced ecosystem, where farming quantifiably improves the Earth and all its inhabitants.