April 21, 2026
Bud break finished across the Cabernet. The Petit Verdot, true to form, is still asleep — it always makes me wait. Gravel's draining well after the late rain.
2026 Vintage
Alexander Valley Bordeaux Blend
Alexander Valley, USA
Varietals
Cabernet Sauvignon · Petit Verdot · Merlot
Per vine
$127
Yield
2.3 bottles / vine
Enrollment
130 of 220 spots filled
The place
Alexander Valley, USA
Alexander Valley, USA
An Alexander Valley estate of 24 acres — Bordeaux varieties on the alluvial benchland east of the Russian River, gravel over clay loam. The warm valley days bring riper tannin and a rounder mid-palate, with each variety picked and fermented on its own clock.
- Wine
- Alexander Valley Bordeaux Blend
- Vessel
- 225L French oak barrel
- Yield
- 2.3 bottles / vine
- Minimum
- 5 vines
- Per vine
- $127
- Vintage
- 2026
Blend
Cabernet Sauvignon80%
Merlot12%
Petit Verdot8%
The year ahead
Every shipment, every sample, every pick.
Real dates as they're known. Updated as the vintage progresses.
May 2026
Flowering
Set window, thinning decisions block by block.
August 2026
Verijuice ships
Green Cabernet juice — bracing and grassy.
Late September 2026
Pick expected
Cabernet first, Petit Verdot two weeks later.
December 2026
Post-ferment sample
Component wines, separate by variety.
April 2027
First barrel sample
French oak, a mix of new and second-fill.
September 2027
Blend trial
Crew tastes the three components and votes the assembly.
March 2028
Bottling
After roughly 16 months in barrel.
June 2028
Wine arrives
Alexander Valley Bordeaux Blend, 2026.
May 2026
Flowering
Set window, thinning decisions block by block.
August 2026
Verijuice ships
Green Cabernet juice — bracing and grassy.
Late September 2026
Pick expected
Cabernet first, Petit Verdot two weeks later.
December 2026
Post-ferment sample
Component wines, separate by variety.
April 2027
First barrel sample
French oak, a mix of new and second-fill.
September 2027
Blend trial
Crew tastes the three components and votes the assembly.
March 2028
Bottling
After roughly 16 months in barrel.
June 2028
Wine arrives
Alexander Valley Bordeaux Blend, 2026.
Meet the current Crew
27
members
18
cities
6
countries represented
8 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.
Alexander Valley Bordeaux Blend
Priced by the vine · 5-vine minimum
$127 / vine
From $635 · 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
90 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.
April 4, 2026
Cover crop disked in this week. We seeded a heavier legume mix on the clay parcels to fix nitrogen — those rows have always run a little lean.
March 25, 2026
27 of you on the Crew now. Welcome. The blend trial next year is the one to mark on your calendar — that's the vote that decides how much Petit Verdot spice the wine carries.
Join this Crew.
One year of your life, inside one vineyard's year — followed by the vine, from bud break to bottle.