Metz Road
The philosophy behind Metz Road is simple: to craft a single vineyard Pinot Noir and Chardonnay that capture the best of Monterey. Metz Road was created out of the Scheid family's desire to express the unique terroir of a single vineyard site. Each vintage, they select the top vineyard block to craft a wine that is true to the varietal and perfectly embodies the site-specific characteristics, they like to describe as 'the soul' of the vineyard. With 10 estate vineyards, they have an amazing selection of acres to work with from vintage to vintage. In fact, this project is a very precise and small element of the wine-making going on here - and is striving to be at the very highest level. They use less than 1% of the grapes the family grows for their Metz Road wines. The vines are farmed for ultra-premium quality and the grapes are hand-picked at optimum ripeness in the early morning. In the winery, the grapes are hand-sorted, the juice is fermented in small lots and the wine is aged in 100% French oak barrels. Our mantra is gentle handling and minimal intervention, allowing the distinctive terroir of a single vineyard site to shine.