Pessagno Winery

Pessagno 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. 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.

The 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. The Pommard Clone expression demonstrates how specific Pinot Noir vine clonal selection interacts with the same Santa Lucia Highlands high-elevation growing conditions to produce an individually distinct character alongside the Sleepy Hollow designate.

For wine lovers who seek the most personally family-name-directly-identified and single-vineyard-specifically-boutique Monterey County Pinot Noir appointment at the most individually educational and personally Steve-Pessagno-family-conducted scale, Pessagno Winery provides the most warmly family-name-appointment-specific and single-vineyard-comparative Santa Lucia Highlands boutique Pinot Noir encounter in Salinas wine country.