Winery Notes:

One of the most dramatic vineyards we work with, Beeson Ranch is composed of vines planted in the 1900s in a steep, eastern facing amphitheater in southern Dry Creek Valley. Quartz-studded soils and a relatively cool growing environment for Dry Creek make for a wine that is both beautifully aromatic but also richly fruited and suave. In the 2022 vintage, we picked half of the vineyard prior to the onset of the serious heat of the first week of September and the other half after some of the later-ripening sections had been exposed to the warmth. We are quite pleased with the results, as the earlier picked fruit shows the soaring red-fruit and spicy mint aromatics we love from the site while the later picked lots provide a core of sappy fruit. Though this wine might not be as immediately drinkable as the precocious 2021, it should start to open up nicely on the earlier side.