Terroir Driven

Our goal is to deliver the expression of our soils, our weather, our farming, and our people through wine. We seek to showcase the elegance and purity of our Catoctin shale, specific to only this place. In order to maintain the potential of the vineyard, we practice low intervention winemaking, but with meticulous precision:

Reds

  • Picked according to taste, not chemistry

  • Hand harvested, triple sorted

  • Fermented in concrete

  • Gentle extraction during fermentation to promote balance and elegance

  • Matured in barrique and concrete depending on the blend

  • Wine transfers done with nitrogen via pressure racking

  • No filtration

Whites

  • Picked with an emphasis on preserving natural acidity

  • Hand harvested, triple sorted

  • Fermented in barrique

  • Élevage for 10 months on fermentation lees

  • No fining, sterile filtration

Concerto

In order to best capture the spirit of our place, we choose to blend proportions of our top performing vineyard parcels into our flagship blend, “Concerto”.

Each grape variety interacts with the soil and climate differently, and each plot has it’s own distinctive melody that we seek to showcase.

Concerto is the cumulative expression of these pieces, blended with the intention to achieve the most balanced, elegant and expressive wine - one that best illustrates the story of the vintage, and the DNA of Catoctin Breeze.