2018 Occidental Hills Syrah is a single-vineyard bottling from our 0.21 acre Syrah planting at English Hill Vineyard. Originating from Occitanie, France, the vines are planted to Steinbeck sand-stone loam on a high-density spacing of 6 feet between rows and 3 feet between vines. Hand-harvesting and Double Guyot pruning have been employed since the first vintage. Our 2018 crop was harvested October 19th and produced just 3 barrels. 50% of the grapes were retained as whole clusters, receiving hand punch-downs and periodic foot-treading during fermentation. Prior to bottling the wine aged 22 months in French Oak barrels.