J53 offers more than a passing resemblance to the nouveau wines of the Beaujolais; Novo meaning new in latin, and J53 representing the code for the average total number of days the wine spends in our cellar before being released to drink, it is indeed a wine of immediacy. A rush to the senses from the stellar 2021 vintage farmed by the de Hayr family Gemini vineyard in neighboring Laurelwood AVA. The concept for J53 is simple, the result mind-blowingly delicious and fresh. This wine presents approximately 5% of total production for the vintage. The inaugural 2021 will be bottled from a single 300L concrete tank of Pinot noir that was inoculated with our pied de cuve, sealed and left to warm in the late summer sun to ferment for approximately 10 days. Free-run juice is then drained to settle in tank, and only then, deemed worthy to bottle as a single, new wine.

Only 25 Cases Produced

12.0% Alc. by Vol.

Joleté, is old French for “a happy gathering” - a celebration of life’s relationships.

This small production Cuvée is made from Pinot Noir grown in meticulously farmed hillside vineyards.

13.5% Alc. by Vol.