Labels denote a unique time and sense of place, in this case announcing the 2013 vintage of Lucia wines from Garys’ Vineyard. You can find the Santa Lucia Highlands on a map, with Garys’ Vineyard slicing across part of its benchland. But you must open a bottle to discover the exceptional aspects of this

site and the distinctive caring that have shaped these Pinot Noir and Syrah wines.

2013 Lucia, Garys’ Vineyard Pinot noir

Pretty, complex, and deep. The 2013 Garys’

Vineyard Pinot Noir is a dark garnet color. Vibrant

aromas of fresh, muddled raspberries, dried rose

petal, forest floor and Earl Grey tea swirl around

in the glass. On the palate the wine is broad with a

firm and long-lasting texture. The season was cool,

long and dry—a combination that made the vines

work extra hard and led to a higher concentration

of flavor, tannin and acidity. The wine drinks

wonderfully now and will age for a decade.

2013 Lucia, Garys’ Vineyard syrah

Crushed rocks and violets. Such contrasting

objects but such insight into the wine profile. The

2013 Garys’ Vineyard Syrah displays the mineral

component of wet or crushed stones but has the

high-tone and pure floral expression of violets—

with other more subtle fruit undertones. On the

palate the wine is richly layered, long lasting and

filled with dense tannins that will be exciting to

watch evolve over many years.

- Jeff Pisoni, Winemaker

Summer 2015 releaSe

GaryS’ Vineyard

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G aze at Garys’ Vineyard with its manicured rows of vines, and you may swear that they all look alike—ribbons of verdant

swaths rather than 47,916 individual plants with unique needs.

Viticulturist Mark Pisoni knows every single one of them.

From pruning in the dead of winter through the excitement of fall harvest, he must make decisions every day in the best interest

of the vines that he tends at Garys’, Soberanes and Pisoni Vineyards. Each vineyard site, its blocks and vines have distinct charac-

teristics and requirements.

Mark does not talk to the vines like his father Gary claims to do. Instead he listens to their individual needs and observes them

with a discerning eye. At Garys’ Vineyard, some of the Pinot Noir and Syrah vines plunge their roots straight down into the sandy

loam soil, whereas the roots of the Pinot Noir plants at the lower section of the 50-acre site must weave in and out of river rock

for nutrients. These differences affect how the vines grow and Mark’s decision-making on irrigation and other viticulture practices.

Leaves perfectly shield some clusters from sun exposure like huge outdoor umbrellas. But spirited Syrah vines require more leaf

removal to balance and keep the plants in check. Although a vertical shoot position system trains most of the vines, those in the

rocky section require a modified vertical shoot position trellis to fit an 18-inch cross-arm piece, allowing for more dappled sunlight.

Depending upon vine balance, yields might be adjusted by dropping three grape clusters from one plant and removing only one

cluster on the next.

Winemaker Jeff Pisoni takes the same approach: One practice never fits all at the winery. Some grape clusters go straight into a

tank to ferment “whole cluster,” while others are first stripped of their stems. Tanks may be drained into identical-looking barrels,

but they may have different markings, be constructed of oak sourced from different forests in France, and have staves of varying

degrees of toast.

Decisions about farming, yields, fermentation and barrels are fine-tuned daily according to the strengths and unique character of

Garys’ Vineyard and its fruit.

The 2013 Lucia Garys’ Vineyard wines reveal the unique sense of place and distinctive caring that crafted them.

Sincerely,

The Pisoni Family

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