2027 vintage · Crews enrolling
Santa Lucia Highlands · Monterey County, California · USA · from $420
The wines
Each is one lot, made in one vessel. The winemaker designs the style; the calls inside it are yours.
Pinot Noir
A Highlands Pinot Noir is dark and full for the variety, with black cherry and blackberry over baking spice and a cola note and ripe tannins.
$116/vine · 1.5 btl/vine
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94% Syrah · 6% Viognier
A bench Syrah here is dark and savory, with blackberry and blueberry over pepper and a smoky, meaty note and firm tannins.
$90/vine · 1.6 btl/vine
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Chardonnay
A Santa Lucia Chardonnay is bright and textured, with yellow apple and lemon over white peach and a leesy depth and lively acidity.
$84/vine · 1.8 btl/vine
Choose this wineWhat you receive
01
Verijuice, post-ferment, barrel, and finished wine — shipped as the vintage takes shape.
02
Pick date, oak, and where the blend lands. The winemaker lays out the options; you choose.
03
Livestream access to harvest at dawn, the cellar, and bottling day, from anywhere.
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Allocated pro-rata to your vines, with your Crew's name on the back label.
Vine to bottle
We farm the vineyard every month of it. The filled stops are where a call comes to you: in a Crew you vote on it with the other members; on a whole-block lease it’s yours alone.
Jan
Dormant pruning
Cane counts set the size of the crop.
Feb
Cane tying
Mar
Bud break
Apr
Shoots grow
May
Flowering
Jun
Fruit set
Jul
Canopy
Aug
Véraison
A verijuice sample ships to you.
Sep
Harvest
Your call · Pick date
The winemaker brings the ripeness numbers and the forecast. Pick now, or wait.
Oct
Cap punch
A post-ferment sample ships to you. On a whole-block lease, fermentation is your call too.
Nov
Barrel down
Your call · Oak
How much new wood, and how long the wine spends in barrel.
Dec
Barrel samples
A barrel sample ships to you.
Then
Blend & bottle
Your call · The blend
Where the final wine lands inside the winemaker's range — then bottling day.
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The place
Follow the season
Weather is live and real, updated hourly. The season curve is typical for this region’s latitude and climate, replaced by your Crew’s readings once farming begins.
30% humidity · wind 7 km/h
697 growing degree days · last 90 days
Last 14 days · high / low °C
7-day forecast
Sat
35°
15°
Clear
Sun
30°
11°
Clear
Mon
25°
10°
Overc
Tue
23°
10°
Light
Wed
20°
10°
38%
Thu
19°
11°
Light
Fri
24°
11°
Clear
Hemisphere
Right now
Harvest
Target ripeness
Pick called for dawn — fruit sampling at 20° Brix
3h ago
First bins in the cellar; cold soak started on the home block
8h ago
Crew vote open: whole-cluster fraction for the top lot
Yesterday
Juice numbers logged — pH 3.4, TA on target
Yesterday
Members invited to watch crush, live from the cellar
2 days ago
Example activity. Your Crew’s feed from Santa Lucia Highlands appears here once the vintage begins.
BarrelLogicSeason progress
Typical · Apr–Oct
Typical ripeness
Typical · véraison to harvest
Beyond the bottle
Lease it here, follow and steer it in BarrelLogic, and taste the wider world at BarrelTaster. Three sites, one vintage.
01 · Lease it
Your own vineyard. Without the work.
Your vines in Santa Lucia Highlands and the wine they make — a few by the vine, or the whole block.
You're here02 · Follow & decide it
The operating system for modern winemakers.
Track your vintage from bud break to barrel — ripeness, the cellar, samples, and every winemaking vote — in the winery's operating system.
Visit BarrelLogic03 · Taste first
The tasting room of the world.
Not ready to commit to a vintage? Taste finished wines from around the world first.
Explore BarrelTasterTell us what you'd want
The wines above are open now, by the vine or as a whole-block lease. If you'd rather buy finished bottles or visit, say so. When enough people ask, we take that demand to the region's wineries — and you'll be the first to hear what they say.
Buy with confidence
This listing opens with the 2027 vintage. Questions about delivery, timing, or how a season runs where you live? Ask before you commit.
Talk to us firstNo account until you pay. We create it from your email so you can follow your vines.
Payments are handled by Stripe. We never see or store your card details.
Pruning, canopy, harvest and the cellar work are done for you. The winemaking calls come to you.
Your bottles are tied to your vines, with your Crew's name on the back label. Lease the whole block and your own name goes on it.
A $500 deposit holds a whole-block lease while the winery confirms the yearly price and the three-year terms with you. It's fully refundable from your account until you sign.
To most states. Outside the US: storage, pickup at the estate, or a US address.
No — check out as a guest. We create your account after you pay so you can follow your vines and manage shipments.
Buy a few vines or lease the whole block — no account needed until checkout. We farm it; you make the calls, and the wine is yours.
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