Gloria Ferrer Sonoma Brut Region_Pfalz after apprenticing with Henri Jayer

after apprenticing with Henri Jayer and a stint at Domaine Drouhin in Oregon

and this entry wine is the base of that pyramid

but one the concentration and structure of this site absorbs without the wine ever reading as oaky

and the wine ferments and ages entirely in concrete: no oak at any stage

Gloria Ferrer Sonoma Brut Region_Pfalz after apprenticing with Henri JayerThe Land Carneros gets the cold first. The AVA sits at the southern end of Sonoma and Napa, opening directly onto San Pablo Bay, so marine fog pushes through it before it reaches anywhere else in either valley, and afternoon wind follows the fog in. Growing season temperatures run well below what most people picture when they hear Sonoma. Soils are shallow clay loam over a dense, compacted subsoil that limits vine vigor and keeps clusters and berries