This, technically, is not otheir first year with Lia’s Vineyard. They have been getting the fruit since 2010 but we have slowly been working their way into spots of the vineyard that they felt were going to make wine of a quality and character that would allow us to do it as a vineyard designate. Lia’s Vineyard is adjacent up thehillside from Olenik Vineyard in the Chehalem Mountain Appellation. In this part of the Chehalem Mountains vineyards the lower hillside consist of marine sedimentary soils and vineyards higher on the hill are volcanic soils. Lia’s Vineyard straddles that transition with sections of the vineyard toward the bottom being in marine soils and sections toward the top being planted in volcanic soils. This represents the Lia’s Vineyard Pinot Noir bottling we weredesirous of making when they first looked at the vineyard back in 2009. They still get the Pommard from the top of the vineyard and the Dijon 115 from the bottom. There is a small (less than half an acre) section in the middle of Lia’s Vineyard planted to the Mariafeld Clone of Pinot Noir (also known as Clone 23). This is a very rare clone in Oregon and was something that they coveted from Day 1. We were not able to obtain it until this year. The Mariafeld is high in acidity, tannin and pigmentation and bears a markedly pitched red-fruit character to it. The combination of thesethree clones is in line with our vision of what this vineyard has to offer.