Three Sticks Wines: One Sky Vineyard
The One Sky Vineyard, one Three Sticks Wines’ monopole vineyards, sits high atop Sonoma Mountain. It is the highest vineyard in the Sonoma Mountain, AVA. It is a very steep vineyard that drains exceptionally well, which is one of the most unique and special properties about it. The soil is mostly volcanic, rich red soil, and when you climb up to the top, it feels like you're on the edge of the world.
One sky vineyard is just under 11 acres and about three quarters of which is Pinot Noir, and the other quarter being Chardonnay. It sits very close as the crow flies to the Gaps Crown Vineyard. It's about two and a half miles away in a straight line, but there are differences both in soil and climates and everything else about them really outlines kind of the idea of what a microclimate is and how two places very close together can physically be very different.
Going from about 750 feet all the way up to almost 1500 feet at the top of the vineyard. It's a very steep place. It sits facing north and northeast, really in an opposite direction of most vineyards around it, which I think from a strict growing standpoint has been beneficial for Three Sticks Wines.
On a foggy day, you'll see the fog coming in from the south. It comes up the Sonoma Valley, and you'll see it wrap around again from the Petaluma Gap from the North, and One Sky sort of seems to be right at the middle of that, right when those two come together.
The One Sky Chardonnay has a major textural component. It is always such a rich and beautiful wine. There are these great flavors of lemon and tropical-ness as well. When you age these wines in just a little bit of French oak, it just pops and gives you this great mouth filling, textural journey.
The Pinot Noirs from One Sky Vineyard are also a mix of texture and richness. You can taste the history of that site and the soils that bring you these Pinot Noirs that are especially unique to Sonoma County, the Sonoma Mountain AVA, and California as a whole. You can almost taste that volcanic soil in the glass.
