Baker Lane Vineyards | The Vineyard

2010 Baker Lane Rosé of Syrah, Sonoma Coast
This is a barrel fermented 'true' rosé i.e a non-saignée effort picked at 21 brix. It’s a non-malolactic crisply floral wine that finished at 12.9 degrees of alcohol. It was bottled in February, 2010.

255 cased produced | 12.9% alcohol | 02/2010 bottled date

Item	Price
750 ml	$20.00

20% discount on purchases of 6 or more bottles.

2009 Baker Lane Sonoma Coast Cuvée Syrah, Sonoma Coast
In this vintage, the Cuvée’s blend was comprised of 60% Ramondo fruit and the remaining 40% drawn from our Estate production. With some of the issues that 2009’s harvest entailed, the blending effort presented intriguing challenges. As a result, the wine’s lush berry spice aromatics and supple texture of the wine are a particularly gratifying outcome. It was aged 11 months in 450 liter Kadar puncheons (10% of which were new) and was bottled in August of 2010.

330 cases produced | 14.1% alcohol | 08/2010 bottled date

Item	Price
750 ml	$28.00

20% discount on purchases of 6 or more bottles.

2009 Baker Lane Sonoma Coast Cuvée Pinot Noir, Sonoma Coast
We use the Cuvée designation on wines whose blends include fruit from multiple sources. This 2009 version was derived from two sites, the Star vineyard and the bio-dynamically farmed Bybee ranch. Our viticulturist and co-winemaker, Greg Adams, has had extensive working histories with both of these vineyards. His harvest oversight provided the exceptional fruit that went in to this wine. It was bottled in August of 2010 after spending 11 months in 400 liter puncheons, 30% of which were new.

440 cases produced | 14.4% alcohol | 08/2010 bottled date

Item	Price
750 ml	$30.00

20% discount on purchases of 6 or more bottles.

2008 Baker Lane Ramondo Pinot Noir, Sonoma Coast
The Ramondo property is 1/4 mile away from our Estate property and is the only other meaningful vineyard on Baker Lane. We have a ground lease on this property and Greg Adams farms it organically. The 2008 harvest yielded less than 2 tons an acre lending the wine ample fruit concentration to go with its defining acidity and savory depth. It was aged 11 months in 35% new Kadar puncheons and bottled in August 2009.

450 cases produced | 14.4% alcohol | 08/2010 bottled date

Item	Price
750 ml	$38.00

12% discount on purchases of 6 or more bottles.

2008 Baker Lane Estate Vineyard Syrah, Sonoma Coast
This is our fourth Estate bottling and the cool even growing season allowed our vineyard’s 9 Syrah clonal selections (along with our several hundred Viognier vines) to achieve optimal ripeness. The wine's intense, savory and broadly aromatic fruit character is a signal expression of the flavor thumbprint that marks our hillside site. It was aged 18 months in 450 liter Kadar puncheons, 20% of which were new.

440 750 ml cases & 80 375 ml cases | 14.6% alcohol | 08/2010 bottled date

Item	Price
750 ml	$42.00

A Note About Our Team
Through the first six harvests of Baker Lane, winemaker Steven Canter was an essential part of our efforts to define and sustain a distinctive and noteworthy quality factor for our wines. Steven moved to Oregon in the Spring of 2010, at which point a natural, although initially unanticipated, winemaking transition occurred. Our winemaking team has now grown to three, as our owner, Stephen Singer, and our viticulturist, Greg Adams have assumed the role of co- winemakers, while Matt Duffy, the cellar master at Vinify our winemaking facility, has joined us as an assistant winemaker. Having carefully observed and participated in every aspect of Baker Lane's viticultural and vinification activities through six harvests, Stephen felt prepared to assume the next level of responsibility. Deciding to do so, though, was made immensely easier by having Greg bring his extraordinary knowledge of the botany of taste, organic chemistry and varied cellar insights to the table. With Matt providing scrupulous on-site attention to detail and a rapidly accumulating production history of his own, considerable firepower is now fueling the effort to take the wines to the next level of distinction.

Ably augmenting Greg and Stephen's efforts in the vineyard and cellar are the contributions of Sean Brennan, our assistant vineyard manager. He has extensive knowledge of bio-dynamism and his system management oversight and attention to detail are essential features of quality control at Baker Lane.

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