Its Origins Pennsylvania nursery owners Walt and Joan Flowers had long dreamed of applying their green thumbs to a shared love of wine, particularly the cool climate grapes Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. In 1989, after years of careful searching, they decided to pioneer some of the more extreme terroir of the developing Sonoma Coast, with vineyards just two miles from the ocean on wind-swept ridges of 350 to 550 metres. Top quality Pinot Noir and Chardonnay thrive easily here, the San Andreas faultline ensuring that local soils are a complex mineral tapestry while the California heat is tempered by elevation, fog and maritime breezes.
