Our friend Tegan Passalacqua helped us to find a brilliant new vineyard to replace the Farina vineyard that we used for the Prince for 15 years-- we lost the vineyard when we could not make wine from it in the pandemic. He showed us the Oleta Vineyard-- a remarkable own-rooted Sauvignon Blanc vineyard at 2000 feet of altitude, in the Sierra Foothills. The Sauvignon is planted on granite talus, the rocky tailings of a 19th-century gold mine at the top of the hill. We knew the vineyard was good, mayb even great-- but could it make The Prince?

Yes. The wine is a wonderful successor to the old Prince, sharper and more defined, less richly powerful-- more restrained.

We also used to make a juice-fermented wine, intense and beautiful, from Farina: La Severità di Bruto. This new vineyard excels in this way too. We never tried a cofermentation of the fruit from Farina with another grape, perhaps out of respect or out of a kind of conservatism. Now, with this new vineyard, it was time to pursue our decades-long homages to the noble white wines of Collio in Friuli. And so, in 2024, we cofermented juice from Oleta with a new Chardonnay vineyard-- the Ascona vineyard, from which we also made In Cima from in 2024.

The resulting wine is strong, idiosyncratic, and a worthy successor to our many Friulano-admiring wines of 2000s. We call this wine "LSB Plus--" the same name that we called it in the cellar.

We made a barrel of this wine-- about 240 bottles.