


Clint Cooper manages the utterly exceptional Rancho Réal Vineyard in the Santa Maria Valley. Clint is a great practitioner of precision viticulture, taking a particular interest in the health of vineyard soils, which is the wellspring of all vinous quality and distinction.


'Let's start with: Grenache, Mourvèdre, Pinot d'Aunis, Mondeuse Blanche, Duras, Schioppettino, Teroldego, Gamay, Corvina, and Grüner Veltliner.

Another note on reductive élevage sur lie: The wine it produces tends to have a greater degree of textural integrity, a kind of warmth or "wholesomeness," such as one finds in a dish that has been braised for a long period of time.




