When David Hirsch planted his first vines on a remote coastal ridge above Cazadero in 1980, few believed the site would produce anything remarkable. When Kistler, Littorai, and Williams Selyem all called simultaneously in the early 1990s asking for his grapes, the case was made. Hirsch Vineyards became the defining vineyard of the Fort Ross-Seaview AVA — its Pinot Noir inspiring an entire generation of winemakers to seek out extreme coastal terroir. Now farming biodynamically and producing under his own label with winemaker Ross Cobb, Hirsch bottles wines of haunting complexity and genuine site specificity. The Healdsburg tasting room opened in 2017.
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