2026 SPRING RELEASE
Vineyard Profile
Dierke’s organically certified hillside vineyard is nestled just off Bodega Highway within a diverse habitat of fruit trees, vegetable gardens, and beneficial plants. Notoriously exuberant and powerful, like the grower himself, the Dierke vineyard teems with life every season. The long, cool growing season of 2023 slowed ripening throughout the region and the Dierke fruit was harvested at full physiological maturity nearly a month later than recent years. Fermented with 20% whole-cluster inclusion and with a 16-month élevage in 30% new tight-grained French oak barrel and puncheon, the 2023 Dierke Pinot Noir exhibits spice and complexity that encapsulates the cool rhythm of the vintage.
