Around 50 cases made, depending on the vintage. Structured and precise — dark berry, garrigue, lavender, and a cool maritime minerality with low alcohol.
The 2023 Phelan Farm Pinot Noir is own-rooted, regeneratively and biodynamically farmed from four coastal plots in Cambria, SLO Coast — 100% whole cluster, spontaneous fermentation in open-top tanks, one year in neutral barrel, no fining, no filtration, zero sulfur added at any point in the process.
Rajat Parr — sommelier, author, and winemaker behind Domaine de la Côte, Sandhi, and Evening Land — gave up the nomadic life of a wine world citizen in 2020 to put his hands in the dirt at a farm a stone's throw from the Pacific, citing Thierry Allemand, Jean-Louis Chave, and Stéphane Tissot as his north stars. The Phelan family homestead dates to 1851. The vines went in 2007.
