2023 Estate Marsanne - Ibarra-Young Vineyard and always wins the beauty

and always wins the beauty contest

These vines clearly want to be here

and cools off with coastal fog in the evening

it gets warm in the day

2023 Estate Marsanne - Ibarra-Young Vineyard and always wins the beautyThese vines were planted in 1973, part of the second planting at Ibarra Young Vineyard. As is everything in this vineyard, they are own rooted, farmed no till, rotationally grazed, and interplanted with native plants to the Santa Ynez watershed. This block sits across a fairly sandy part of an alluvial bench that runs through the vineyard. It has extremely low vigor, allowing light through the canopy so that its clusters are constantly dappled with