drum canyon, Sta. Rita Hills
estate vineyards
Four Pinot Noirs from the same hillside. Different color, texture, aroma.
Each an entirely different conversation in the glass – coming from the ground itself, block by block.
Drum Canyon sits in the northeastern corner of the Sta. Rita Hills, where erosion allowed for limestone and chalk to remain within the clay soils. Explore Drum Canyon’s defining characteristics.
infinity
Huit // North
The hilltop is where the wind is most relentless. On steep hillsides, Block 8 is planted entirely to Dijon clones which are higher-yielding by nature, but transformed by extreme site conditions into something concentrated and singular. Huit earned its own bottling through the force of what it produced. Its label icon is a figure-eight on its side: infinity, or the Ouroboros, a serpent consuming its own tail. The cyclical work of a vineyard that never truly rests.
the sea
La Mer // East
water
Careaga // west
Beneath Drum Canyon runs the Careaga aquifer, a water source unique to this corner of the Sta. Rita Hills and one of the rarest farming assets in the appellation. The wine comes from Blocks 4A and 6B: dark fruit, dark flower, grounded by sandy limestone soils that only this subterranean water sustains.
balance
Envie // South
William Hines Wine
our promise to you
Nothing is added that the wine does not need.
Nothing is removed that it did not offer willingly.
This approach demands confidence in the raw material, and the fruit at Drum Canyon earns it.
