Two Moon Vineyard (named from the reflection of the full moon onto the vineyard pond) sprawls across the top of McCray Ridge 1,700 feet above the Alexander Valley and commands spectacular views of the Mayacamas Range, Healdsburg's Fitch Mountain, and the Santa Rosa plain below. Situated above the fog line, Two Moon Vineyard begins each day in sunlight.
The vineyard's terraces "twist and bend, much like an 'E' ticket ride," laughs Stan Simpson owner and viticulturalist. The imposing terrain may partially explain Stan's "hands-off" farming style. He rarely interferes with a vine's natural expression of what it is and where it's grown. Farming is limited to those practices best help vines maintain balanced energy: stressed but never distressed. Our Cabernet from Two Moon exhibits Merlot-like roundness with a live-forever tannic structure. |
