Pierce Ranch Vineyards — Santa Lucia Highlands Winery & Tasting Room

Pierce Ranch Vineyards carries the English-heritage family surname of the Pierce family — their name on a Santa Lucia Highlands Pinot Noir and Chardonnay estate at high elevation above the Salinas Valley. The Pierce Ranch encompasses vineyard blocks at 2,200 feet elevation in the Santa Lucia Highlands, where the steep mountain terrain, well-drained decomposed granite soils, and the daily afternoon wind from Monterey Bay create growing conditions of extraordinary intensity for Burgundian varieties. The Pinot Noir from the Santa Lucia Highlands range — one of the world's most distinctive cool-climate wine growing zones despite its latitude — demonstrates the range's ability to produce wines of haunting mineral intensity and structural complexity.