Founding owner · 2026 vintage
Santa Lucia Highlands Estate
Santa Lucia Highlands, USA · from $420
Own a few vines
from $420
Buy a share of a lot by the vine — 5-vine minimum. Your bottles are allocated pro-rata at release.
Highlands Pinot Noir
Pinot Noir
$116/vine · 1.5 btl/vine
Bench Syrah
94% Syrah · 6% Viognier
$90/vine · 1.6 btl/vine
Santa Lucia Chardonnay
Chardonnay
$84/vine · 1.8 btl/vine
Or take the whole block
Your name on the block across multiple vintages — every call is yours. Reserve it with a fully refundable $500 deposit.
- Guest checkout — account made after you pay
- We farm it; you make every winemaking call
- Ships worldwide, or free pickup at the estate
- Secure checkout — payments powered by Stripe
The wines
3 lots enrolling at Santa Lucia Highlands.
Highlands Pinot Noir
Pinot Noir
A Highlands Pinot Noir is dark and full for the variety, with black cherry and blackberry over baking spice and a cola note and ripe tannins.
- Pairs with
- duck breast, grilled salmon, wild mushroom pasta
- Serve
- Serve 15-16°C in a Burgundy bowl; a short decant lifts the fruit.
- Cellar
- Generous young; rewards 4-8 years in the cellar.
1.5 btl / vine
$116/vine
Bench Syrah
94% Syrah · 6% Viognier
A bench Syrah here is dark and savory, with blackberry and blueberry over pepper and a smoky, meaty note and firm tannins.
- Pairs with
- grilled lamb, peppered steak, braised short rib
- Serve
- Serve 16-17°C; decant 45 minutes to open the dark fruit.
- Cellar
- Approachable young; holds and deepens over 6-10 years.
1.6 btl / vine
$90/vine
Santa Lucia Chardonnay
Chardonnay
A Santa Lucia Chardonnay is bright and textured, with yellow apple and lemon over white peach and a leesy depth and lively acidity.
- Pairs with
- roast chicken, lobster, crab cakes
- Serve
- Serve at 11-13°C in a wide glass to show the texture.
- Cellar
- Drinks well on release; holds for 4-7 years.
1.8 btl / vine
$84/vine
What you receive
A year of the vintage, in your hands.
Samples all season
Verijuice, post-ferment, barrel, and finished wine — shipped as the vintage takes shape.
A vote at every fork
Pick date, fermentation, barrels, and where the blend lands. The real calls, with your input.
Watch it live
Livestream access to harvest at dawn, the cellar, and bottling day, from anywhere.
Your bottles at release
Allocated pro-rata to your vines, with the crew's name on the back label next to yours.
The place
Why the wine tastes like here.
- Region
- Santa Lucia Highlands, USA
- Soil
- Well-drained granitic and decomposed-granite terraces of the Salinas Valley bench
- Climate
- Cool maritime, fierce afternoon wind funneled off Monterey Bay onto east-facing benches
- Elevation
- 120–360 m
- Wines enrolling
- 3 crew lots
Vine to bottle
You’re there for the whole year.
Jan
Dormant pruning
Feb
Cane tying
Mar
Bud break
Apr
Shoots grow
May
Flowering
Jun
Fruit set
Jul
Canopy
Aug
Véraison
Sep
Harvest
Oct
Cap punch
Nov
Barrel down
Dec
Barrel samples
Follow the season
The Santa Lucia Highlands growing year, by the numbers.
Weather is live and real, updated hourly. The season curve is typical for this region’s latitude and climate, replaced by your crew’s readings once farming begins.
29% humidity · wind 13 km/h
693 growing degree days · last 90 days
Last 14 days · high / low °C
7-day forecast
Sun
32°
11°
Fog
Mon
34°
12°
Fog
Tue
42°
13°
Fog
Wed
42°
17°
Clear
Thu
43°
19°
Clear
Fri
43°
21°
Clear
Sat
43°
22°
Clear
Hemisphere
Northern
Right now
Véraison
Harvest
October · ~73d
Target ripeness
~20°Brix
Véraison ~60% across the home block — color coming on fast
5h ago
Brix sampled at 15° — tracking on pace for harvest
Yesterday
Crew vote opens Friday: pick-date window
2 days ago
Light leaf-pull on the morning side for even ripening
4 days ago
Deficit irrigation dialed back to concentrate flavor
5 days ago
Sample activity. Your crew’s live feed from Santa Lucia Highlands appears here once the vintage begins.
BarrelLogicSeason progress
Typical · Apr–Oct
Typical ripeness
Typical · véraison to harvest
Beyond the bottle
Your vintage, end to end.
One vine, three rooms — own it here, steer it in BarrelLogic, and taste the wider world at BarrelTaster. It’s all one ecosystem.
SplitVineyards
Your vines at Santa Lucia Highlands and the wine they make — a few by the vine, or the whole block.
You're hereBarrelLogic
Track your vintage bud break to barrel — ripeness, the cellar, samples, and every winemaking vote — in the winery's operating system.
Visit BarrelLogicBarrelTaster
Not ready to own a whole vintage? Taste finished wines from across the world first.
Explore at BarrelTasterWhat you’ll actually decide.
We farm it; the calls are yours. Over the vintage your crew votes the real forks — tracked and tallied in BarrelLogic.
Pick date
Call harvest by the ripeness numbers and the forecast.
Fermentation
Whole-cluster or destemmed, native or inoculated yeast.
Barrels & oak
New vs. neutral wood, cooperage, and time in barrel.
The blend
Where the final wine lands — lot by lot, with the crew.
Buy with confidence
Owning a vintage, without the worry.
You’re among the first owners of this estate’s crews. Questions about delivery, duties, or how a season is handled where you live?
Talk to us firstRefundable block deposit
Reserve a whole block with a fully refundable deposit — no commitment until you decide.
Secure checkout
Payments are handled by Stripe. We never see or store your card details.
Real provenance
Your bottles are tied to your vines, with your name on the back label at release.
Ships worldwide or free pickup
We ship to you, or you collect at the estate for free — your call.
Questions
Everything you might be wondering.
No — check out as a guest. We create your account after you pay so you can follow your vines and manage shipments.
Make the Santa Lucia Highlands vintage yours.
Buy a few vines or lease the whole block — no account needed until checkout. We farm it; you make every call and the wine is yours.
Choose your vines — from $420