Wine Made After Dark
Estate Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from a fog-cooled ridge above the Pacific — every cluster picked by lantern light, while the fruit is still cold.
One of the few California houses to harvest entirely at night — acidity kept by temperature, not correction.
Wines of the Evening Coast
Estate Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and a little Syrah — picked cold at night, raised slowly in a cellar cut into the hillside.
2015 Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon
2015 Reserve Pinot Noir
2015 Riesling
2016 Cabernet Sauvignon
2016 Pinot Gris
2015 Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon
Fleshy, dark berry fruits and warm spice fill the palate, supported by a barely perceptible touch of oak.
A Ridge Above the Fog Line
Vespera sits on thirty-four acres of ridgeline above Jenner, where the Pacific fog rolls in every evening and the vines cool twenty degrees before midnight. It's a hard place to farm and exactly the right place to grow Pinot Noir.
We planted in 2011, on our own roots where the soil allowed it, and we've farmed the same rows ourselves every season since — no fruit contracts, no négociant lots. If it's in the bottle, it grew within sight of the cellar door.
Explore the EstateWe pick when the fruit is coldest and the coast is quiet — every cluster, by hand, by lantern light.
Cold fruit keeps its acidity without correction, ferments start slow on native yeast, and nothing needs to be forced back into balance later. It takes twice as many hands and twice as long. The wines are why we keep doing it.
Recognized by the Press We Respect
Loved by Guests & Critics
The night harvest isn't a gimmick — you can taste the cold in the glass. Coastal Pinot with real nerve.
Wine SpectatorA tasting at dusk on that ridge, fog coming over the vines, is the single best hour of wine country right now.
Guest reviewVespera has quietly become the benchmark for what the far Sonoma Coast can do.
PunchThe Vespera Circle
An allocation-first membership: the cellar's smallest lots go to the Circle before anyone else, at member pricing, with a standing seat at the estate's evening tastings.
- First allocation of every release, including single-block lots that never reach the public list
- Member pricing on every bottle, every day
- Complimentary tastings for you and three guests, each visit
- Invitations to harvest nights — pick with us, then taste at dawn
Taste at Dusk
Seated tastings on the cellar terrace, timed to the last hour of light — six pours, small plates from the estate kitchen, and the fog arriving on schedule.
Find the Ridge
2400 Meyers Grade Road, Jenner, CA 95450
Thu – Mon, 12pm – 9pm · Tastings by appointment
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