About Pessagno Winery
Pessagno is a Santa Lucia Highlands specialist from veteran winemaker Stephen Pessagno, focused on elegant, vineyard-designated Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Syrah drawn from prime sites in the SLH and nearby Paicines. The wines aim for distinct character and finesse, and have earned top marks, including some of California's highest-rated Syrah and Pinot Noir in their vintages.
The Santa Lucia Highlands sits just off Highway 101 in Monterey County, an under-the-radar region that rewards the detour for lovers of cool-climate Pinot and Chardonnay. Pessagno is an ideal place to discover it, with wines of real pedigree away from the crowds.
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Pessagno Winery isPessagno Winery is one of the Santa Lucia Highlands' most personally family-name-directly-identified and single-vineyard-specifically-committed boutique Pinot Noir and Chardonnay appointments.
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Steve Pessagno,Steve Pessagno, whose winemaking career in the Santa Lucia Highlands began long before the high-elevation diurnal-temperature-swinging Salinas Valley western ridge appellation received significant international recognition, produces Sleepy Hollow Vineyard and Pommard Clone Pinot Noir alongside estate Chardonnay with the most personally family-name-vineyard-directly-appointment-conducted and single-vineyard-specifically-Monterey-County-boutique approach available in the Salinas Highlands corridor.
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The Sleepy HollowThe Sleepy Hollow Vineyard designation, one of the Santa Lucia Highlands' most individually critically recognized and personally name-evocatively-Washington-Irving-literature-connecting vineyard sources, produces Pinot Noir of the specific high-elevation diurnal temperature swing and maritime-cool character that the most carefully identified Santa Lucia Highlands growing environments consistently deliver.
"Steve Pessagno's 1994 Monterey County Santa Lucia Highlands single-vineyard Pinot Noir and Chardonnay program, one of t"
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Pinot Noir
Sleepy Hollow Vineyard Pinot Noir
Santa Lucia Highlands · Sleepy Hollow Vineyard
Pinot Noir from Pessagno Winery (Santa Lucia Highlands, Sleepy Hollow Vineyard).
Estate
★★★★☆
Pinot Noir
Pommard Clone Pinot Noir
Santa Lucia Highlands · Pessagno Estate
Pinot Noir from Pessagno Winery (Santa Lucia Highlands, Pessagno Estate).
Estate
★★★★☆
Chardonnay
Chardonnay
Santa Lucia Highlands · Pessagno Estate
Chardonnay from Pessagno Winery (Santa Lucia Highlands, Pessagno Estate).
Estate
★★★★☆
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Taste the wines at Pessagno Winery in the Santa Lucia Highlands. By appointment only, reservations required.
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