Littorai Richardson Ranch Pinot Noir 2022

Grape: Pinot Noir
Vintage: 2022
Type: Red

This red wine comes from Richardson Ranch, 760 to 800 feet up and 4.5 miles from the Pacific, south of Annapolis in northwestern Sonoma County. The Richardsons, a family of foresters and ranchers, bought the 220-acre parcel in 2001 intending to plant grapes, a first for the family. Ted Lemon visited in 2016 and chose a single west-facing slope of shallow Gold Ridge loam that stood apart from the ground around it, picking the rootstock and clones himself. Shallow soil was the draw.