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racked every three months and bottled without filtration

macerated for about two weeks in concrete vats with old-fashioned pigeage

where cool Pacific winds and diatomaceous soils push the grape toward a brighter

Pied a Terre Cabernet Sauvignon Sonoma County 2018 and a light thread ofRichard Luftig spent 25 years buying wine for New York, and Pied Terre is his answer to a problem he knew intimately: serious, affordable California Cabernet had all but vanished. The name means foot to earth, and the project runs on vineyards rather than ego, drawing fruit from sites in Dry Creek Valley and Knights Valley, with winemaking from a roster that has included Clay Mauritson and, today, Stephane Vivier, and a house policy of simply not