To rejoice the disclosing of the brand new property winery, the vineyard debuts its inaugural 2020 classic of MacRostie Nightwing Winery Chardonnay
SONOMA COUNTY, Calif. – June 14, 2022 – Marking the end result of 5 years of labor creating and planting a virgin website within the Sonoma Coast’s acclaimed Petaluma Hole AVA, MacRostie Vineyard and Vineyards is happy to unveil its new Nightwing Property Winery. The cool-climate winery is positioned on the mountainous japanese fringe of the Petaluma Hole AVA and options a few of the highest planted elevations within the area, reaching heights of 1,300 ft. Nightwing Winery was developed in 2017 and planted the next 12 months as a mosaic of 35 blocks that includes 44 acres of Pinot Noir and 30 acres of Chardonnay. To coincide with the disclosing of the vineyard’s new property winery, MacRostie is proud to announce the discharge of its debut 2020 Nightwing Winery Chardonnay.
MacRostie Winemaker Heidi Bridenhagen and Founder Steve MacRostie first considered the property in 2017 and instantly acknowledged its potential to provide world-class Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. Working in partnership with Atlas Winery Administration (AVM), which has been farming each the close by Hole’s Crown Winery and Sunchase Winery (which is contiguous to Nightwing) for the previous decade, Bridenhagen and MacRostie oversaw the design of the positioning, which options quite a few elevations, exposures and soil compositions. Additionally they personally chosen Nightwing’s 9 clones of Pinot Noir, 9 clones of Chardonnay and 7 rootstocks, with the Pinot Noir largely planted above the fog line, and the Chardonnay predominantly established at decrease elevations the place it advantages from the cooling affect of the area’s clockwork fog.
“Working with Steve [MacRostie] and the AVM workforce to ascertain Nightwing Winery has been one of many proudest accomplishments of my profession,” says Heidi. “We now have been partnering with vineyards within the Petaluma Hole since lengthy earlier than it grew to become an official AVA in 2017. It’s an unbelievable area for creating the sorts of Chardonnays and Pinot Noirs that encourage us, and have lengthy outlined MacRostie. To have the ability to sculpt this beautiful website from the bottom up was a outstanding alternative to use all the things that we’ve got discovered about cool-climate viticulture at MacRostie over the previous 35 years.”
The inaugural 2020 MacRostie Nightwing Winery Chardonnay is the primary wine to be produced from grapes grown on the property and is presently solely accessible to wine membership members and by direct buy by way of the vineyard. Transferring ahead, MacRostie will probably be producing a Nightwing Winery Pinot Noir, and also will be utilizing fruit from the property in its acclaimed Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir and Chardonnay bottlings, in addition to different potential wines.
The title Nightwing was chosen as a nod to the Petaluma Hole’s many indigenous birds, together with the Night time Heron, and to honor Vernon Morelli, the land’s proprietor, and a WWII pilot who constructed a touchdown strip on the positioning. Whereas Morelli retains possession of the land, MacRostie has full management of the property and Nightwing Winery below a long-term lease that extends to 2052.
“The previous decade has been an extremely thrilling and dynamic interval at MacRostie,” says Model Director Don Davis. “We’ve grown our winery program past its historic roots in Carneros to incorporate a few of California’s most acclaimed vineyards, constructed our MacRostie Property Home within the Russian River Valley and made it into one of many premier hospitality and tasting venues within the area, based our Thale’s Property Winery, and expanded our portfolio of wines from only a handful to upwards of 30, with most being lower than 500 instances. Now, with Nightwing Winery, we’re serving to to pioneer what we consider will probably be one among California’s premier AVAs, whereas guaranteeing that we are going to have extraordinary grapes to work with for many years to come back.”
MacRostie Vineyard and Vineyards
Based in 1987 by Sonoma County winemaking pioneer and Chardonnay and Pinot Noir specialist Steve MacRostie, MacRostie Vineyard and Vineyards has established itself as one of many Sonoma Coast’s defining wineries, and a pacesetter in a vibrant, balanced and age-worthy fashion of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. Utilizing grapes farmed by legendary winegrowing households, together with the Duttons, Sangiacomos and Martinellis, and from MacRostie’s personal Nightwing, Wildcat Mountain and Thale’s vineyards, MacRostie has assembled one of many Sonoma Coast’s most acclaimed and various winery packages. For extra data, please go to www.macrostiewinery.com.
