2024 Antica Terra chardonnay Aequorin

The 2024 chardonnay Aequorin has an intense marine scented bouquet — all sea spray and oyster brine — that blossoms in the glass with lemon verbena, oyster shell and sun on sand. It carries its oceanic intensity through the center with a tactility, directionality and pull we agreed was perhaps best described as a current. It has a strong and clearly centered line of acidity held in place by a pleasingly resinous quality on the finish. Sometimes wines carry, in their intensity, an almost venomous quality, that I (MH) am in love with. This wine does that.

250 cases produced
release date March 1, 2027

2025 Antica Terra rosé Angelicall

The 2025 rosé Angelicall is a stunner; exactly the kind of rosé we were hoping might reveal itself in our work over time. With an unexpected aromatic cascade of fava leaves, wild rose, hinoki, salmonberry, and sage, it opens on the palate with a depth of blood orange pith, ferrous tactility and a distinct flinty reduction. We are so beguiled by this wine today but considered, at the blending table, holding for a decade before offering it to you. We decided, in the end, not to be so stingy, but this is one that feels like it would reward patience. It has so many evolutions yet to come.

76 cases produced
release date March 1, 2027

2024 Antica Terra pinot noir Obelin

This four-barrel selection has an audacity of aromatics and is blessed with a sense of completeness that was immediately apparent. It is a tender wine of great delicacy that belies the intensity that rises in a crescendo of red currant, bay, orange blossom and graphite through its center. Hauntingly staining and long, the 2024 pinot noir Obelin gains, exponentially, in stature once it’s left the glass.

126 cases produced
release date March 1, 2027

2024 Antica Terra pinot noir Antikythera

On bottling day, Mimi and I are on opposite ends of the process, she does all of the important (and harder) work in the winery side while I’m on QA/QC on the truck. We’re separated by a fifty-foot bottling line and ten humans, all of us working in a complex choreography to shepherd the wines into bottle. We can’t see one another unless we leave our positions (which we would never do) and so, if we need to ask one another a question we have to rely on text.

Mimi tastes the wines, barrel by barrel as they’re racked into tank and I taste the first eighteen bottles off the line before we continue. Usually I taste, smile, give the team a thumbs up, and we’re off; but with the 2024 pinot noir Antikythera, the whole team had to wait while I pulled my phone out of my pocket to holler (digitally) “Mimi! This Antikythera!!” appended by, at a loss for words, a whole string of lightning bolts. Mimi responded with “I know!!!” and two emojis of that guy with his mind being blown, represented by an exploded, mushroom cloud where the brain used to be.

I swear we’re both literate, and Mimi’s actually smart, but only lightning bolts and mushroom clouds made sense in that moment.

The 2024 pinot noir Antikythera is so special. It is the clearest distillation of the feeling of this place: intense, stony and determined, all golden slanted light, spaciousness, and a sense of the sea. If this wine, and therefore this place, has ever spoken to you, all we can say is that this vintage tells its story more clearly than ever before. Mimi and I both just feel so lucky to be able to see/taste/feel this place in this exact way. Grateful hands emojis all around.

658 cases produced
release date March 1, 2027