Our friend Tegan Passalacqua helped us to find a brilliant new vineyard to replace the Farina vineyard that we used for the Prince for 15 years— we lost the vineyard when we could not make wine from it in the pandemic. He showed us the Oleta Vineyard— a remarkable own-rooted Sauvignon Blanc vineyard at 2000 feet of altitude, in the Sierra Foothills. The Sauvignon is planted on granite talus, the rocky tailings of a 19th-century gold mine at the top of the hill. We knew the vineyard was good, mayb even great— but could it make The Prince?

Yes. The wine is a wonderful successor to the old Prince, sharper and more defined, less richly powerful— more restrained.

We also used to make a juice-fermented wine, intense and beautiful, from Farina: La Severità di Bruto. This new vineyard excels in this way too. We never tried a cofermentation of the fruit from Farina with another grape, perhaps out of respect or out of a kind of conservatism. Now, with this new vineyard, it was time to pursue our decades-long homages to the noble white wines of Collio in Friuli. And so, in 2024, we cofermented juice from Oleta with a new Chardonnay vineyard— the Ascona vineyard, from which we also made In Cima from in 2024.

The resulting wine is strong, idiosyncratic, and a worthy successor to our many Friulano-admiring wines of 2000s. We call this wine "LSB Plus—" the same name that we called it in the cellar.

We made a barrel of this wine— about 240 bottles.