Hirsch Vineyards is recognized as one of the finest sites for Pinot Noir in the new world. David Hirsch planted his vineyard overlooking the Pacific Ocean in 1980, making it one of the oldest vineyards on the West Sonoma Coast. Since then it has become a highly soughtafter source for Pinot Noir grapes in California, providing fruit to Littorai, Williams Selyem, Kistler and many others. In 2002, Hirsch began producing its own estate Pinot Noirs and Chardonnays from this complex, cool-weather site.

Located on the extreme western Sonoma Coast, Hirsch is defined by its proximity to both the Pacific Ocean and the San Andreas Fault. The former creates our extreme, maritime climate, and the latter imparts a fearsome complexity to our soils and topography. The result is a highly diverse and fragmented estate: 72 planted acres, divided into 67 individual farming blocks, corresponding to the dramatic and sudden changes in soil and aspect created by the Fault. This degree of fragmentation is unmatched even by the famously subdivided vineyards of Burgundy’s Côte de Nuits. Each block was individually developed and is now farmed, harvested and vinified separately.