We harvested the sauvignon blanc for LSB from Farina Vineyard on September 26, which is late for this wine. 2012 was a cool growing season for this very special east-facing vineyard on Sonoma Mountain. The grapes see very little direct sunlight and only in the morning. We pressed the whole clusters gently and fermented the juice in stainless steel. This wine is naturally high acid due to the vineyard's very rocky soils and Joe Voteck's careful dry farming. This is one of the few wines that we protect from oxygen and one of the few for which we use enough So2 to inhibit malolactic fermentation. This wine is marked by its power and acidity.