While Larkmead Vineyards has mostly newer plantings, some vines, like these Tocai Friulano, are more than a century old and produce terroir-driven grapes coveted by other wineries.
Old, historical Larkmead Vineyard:
The vines may be young,
but the terroir isn’t
by
Alan Goldfarb
September 22, 2008
Is an old vineyard – one of the oldest parcels of land in California – still an old vineyard even if a great preponderance of the grape vines that grow on it are no more than 23 years old?
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