John Valetto

Well, you know, I have three favorites.

So if it's a warm day, it's our Rosé of Pinot Noirs.

On a nice afternoon, if we're having a nice steak or something, a great bottle of our 18-barrel Pinot.

And then if it's just a gentle afternoon, it would be our Teresa Chardonnay.

Well, on a harvest day, you would find, you'd see a pretty amazing sight.

We have multiple crews and they're picking and sorting the grapes and bringing them in so we can load them on the trucks, get them to the winery before it gets warm.

Just a wonderful thing.

It's just a very special place for us to live here, raise our children here, and also be able to grow wine grapes and make wine.

And our philosophy is share wine with family and friends over a great meal and make new friends.

That's what Sonoma County is.

As we headed into 2025, we had about 25% of our grapes that were not contracted.

And that was the first time in 25 years that that happened.

And there's many other growers with the same pain, unfortunately.

Yeah, I would try that.

More translucent.

It's hard.

It's hard.

But we've got to make decisions and sometimes hard decisions.

But we're going to be a survivor.

It's a lot of sleepless nights right now just trying to figure out things of what we're going to do.