NOCTURNE
Estate wine, harvested by moonlight
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Est. 2009  ·  Napa Valley

Nocturne

Estate wine, harvested by moonlight
97 PointsCritics' Choice 2024

We harvest
in the dark.

Picked cold,
at midnight.

Pressed slow,
by moonlight.

Aged where the
sun never reaches.

This is wine,
slowed down.

Nocturne  ·  Est. 2009
I The Vineyard
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Estate vines worked by headlamp at night
The Night Harvest

Born of
the dark

For three weeks each autumn our pickers walk the rows by headlamp, cutting fruit at the coldest hour. Heat is the enemy of nerve. Picked cool and pressed cooler, the grapes arrive bright, slow to ferment, and impossibly clean — wine with the composure of the night it was born in.

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Cutting begins
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Picked cold
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Acres by hand
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Nights each fall
Night harvest — a harvester and tractor working the vineyard rows by headlight
The Cellar

Three from the night

Small lots, made once and never repeated. Each bottling is numbered and offered first to our list.

Minuit

$145
Cabernet Sauvignon · 2021

Blackcurrant, graphite and a whisper of smoke, drawn long over a fine grain of tannin.

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Première Lune

$120
Pinot Noir · 2022

Wild cherry, crushed rose and forest floor — translucent, nervy, lifted on cool acidity.

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Solstice

$165
Syrah · 2020

Black plum, violet and cracked pepper, with the savoury depth of whole-cluster fruit.

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The Ritual

Why the night matters

01

Pick

Harvest begins at midnight, by headlamp and moon. Cool fruit means clean, unhurried fermentation.

02

Press

Whole-cluster and gentle, at the temperature of the night air. Nothing is rushed, nothing is forced.

03

Rest

Years in French oak, in a cellar carved into the hill — dark, still and a constant fifty-five degrees.

The People

The hands behind
the harvest

Élise Marchand, Winemaker

Élise Marchand

Winemaker

Twenty harvests between Burgundy and these hills. Keeper of the midnight cadence.

Tomás Rivera, Vineyard Manager

Tomás Rivera

Vineyard Manager

Reads the rows by feel and decides, each night, when the fruit is finally ready.

Clara Whitfield, Cellar Master

Clara Whitfield

Cellar Master

Lives among the barrels, tending the long, dark sleep of every vintage.

Henri Dubois, Founder

Henri Dubois

Founder

Planted the first vines in 2009 with one rule: never pick in daylight.

Allocation 2024

Reserve the
next release

A single midnight bottling, offered first to our list. Leave your name and we will write before the moon turns.

Thank you — your invitation is on its way.