Our commitment to sustainability at Baker Lane Vineyards is obviously rooted in the fact that it is our home, but first and foremost we believe that it is simply the right thing to do. It started with our efforts in developing the vineyard. Our hillside site, with its Gold Ridge sandy loamy soil, has proven to be an exceptional vineyard location, but one that posed numerous environmental challenges. Creating an elaborate property-wide system of drains, a highly engineered sedimentation basin and carefully sequenced ground cover plantings are all integral parts of an effort to keep erosion out of the delicate riparian corridor below our Estate vineyard. This kind of resource management may seem extravagant but it doesn’t make sense that environmental stewardship (and the long-term and multi-faceted savings it avails) be done on the cheap.
We’ve taken the same approach with every aspect of our property, including our comprehensive solar installations, uses of recycled and sustainable materials, and not the least, the organic farming practices that we utilize in the vineyard and orchards. We believe that it is a privilege to have landed here amidst the natural splendor of western Sonoma County, and that even as we have transformed much of our immediate landscape, it is our explicit responsibility to do so in a way that preserves for generations to come the sensitive natural balances that make it such a beautiful place.