April 15, 2026
The Syrah pushed its first leaves overnight — two days ahead of what my notebook says. cool maritime, fierce afternoon wind funneled off monterey bay onto east-facing benches is running warm. I'll take it, cautiously.
2026 Vintage
Bench Syrah
Santa Lucia Highlands, USA
Varietals
Syrah · Viognier
Per vine
$90
Yield
1.6 bottles / vine
Enrollment
104 of 280 spots filled
The place
Santa Lucia Highlands, USA
Santa Lucia Highlands, USA
A working estate in Santa Lucia Highlands, USA — Syrah farmed on well-drained granitic and decomposed-granite terraces of the salinas valley bench, cool maritime, fierce afternoon wind funneled off monterey bay onto east-facing benches. The place sets the wine: judge it on the live data feed and the samples across the season.
- Wine
- Bench Syrah
- Vessel
- 225L French oak barrel, 25% new
- Yield
- 1.6 bottles / vine
- Minimum
- 5 vines
- Per vine
- $90
- Vintage
- 2026
Blend
Syrah94%
Viognier6%
The year ahead
Every shipment, every sample, every pick.
Real dates as they're known. Updated as the vintage progresses.
May 2026
Flowering update
Fruit set, first yield estimate.
August 2026
Verijuice ships
Pressed from green fruit, shipped to every member.
September 2026
Pick expected
Livestream from dawn. Date confirmed 48 hours ahead.
December 2026
Post-ferment sample
Your wine at its youngest, weeks after pressing.
March 2027
First barrel sample
A pull from the vessel where your wine lives.
May 2027
Blend trial
Vote on the final cuvée with the Crew.
August 2027
Bottling
Livestream from the bottling line.
October 2027
Wine arrives
Your bottles, allocated pro-rata to your vines.
May 2026
Flowering update
Fruit set, first yield estimate.
August 2026
Verijuice ships
Pressed from green fruit, shipped to every member.
September 2026
Pick expected
Livestream from dawn. Date confirmed 48 hours ahead.
December 2026
Post-ferment sample
Your wine at its youngest, weeks after pressing.
March 2027
First barrel sample
A pull from the vessel where your wine lives.
May 2027
Blend trial
Vote on the final cuvée with the Crew.
August 2027
Bottling
Livestream from the bottling line.
October 2027
Wine arrives
Your bottles, allocated pro-rata to your vines.
Meet the current Crew
29
members
9
cities
5
countries represented
10 yrs
average tenure in wine
No individual profiles — privacy matters inside the Crew. You'll meet each other once you're in.
How it's priced
By the vine.
This lot is priced per vine. Buy as few as 5 — choose how many in the next step. Your bottles are allocated pro-rata to your vines.
Bench Syrah
Priced by the vine · 5-vine minimum
$90 / vine
From $450 · 5 vines · USD
- A share of the lot, by the vine (5-vine minimum)
- Samples across the season: verijuice, post-ferment, barrel, finished wine
- A vote at every fork — pick date, oak, where the blend lands
- Your bottles at release, allocated pro-rata to your vines
- Livestream access to every moment
176 vines left
Pickup or ship
How your wine reaches you.
Swing by the tasting room when the next shipment is ready. Free. For everyone else, ship is the default and equally smooth.
Ship to my address
Standard carrier, adult signature required. Flat fee per shipment. You can switch the destination per shipment at any time.
Ships to: US
Choose at signup. Switch per shipment anytime.
Recent updates
From the rows.
March 30, 2026
Dug soil pits across the old block. You can watch the well-drained granitic and decomposed-granite terraces of the salinas valley bench change with every shovel — it's why no two rows here taste the same.
March 12, 2026
Welcomed the Crew this week — notes came in from further away than usual. If you've never tasted unripe-grape verjuice, the summer ship will surprise you.
Join this Crew.
One year of your life, inside one vineyard's year — followed by the vine, from bud break to bottle.