Ross and Jennifer Halleck planted their first vines in 2000 on a wind-battered hilltop in Sebastopol that most considered too extreme for wine grapes. They proved the doubters wrong. The estate's Pinot Noir from rocky, wind-stressed vines at the western edge of the Petaluma Gap is among the most distinctive in Sonoma County — intense, aromatic, and structurally precise. Production is kept small deliberately, with grapes from only their estate and a handful of trusted Sonoma Coast sites. Halleck is one of those rare wineries where the owner, the farmer, and the winemaker are the same person. The wines reflect that singularity.
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