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.