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Pinot Noir · Carneros
Crushed pomegranate, white pepper, and a thread of forest floor. Whole-cluster fermented; aged eleven months in neutral French oak.
750ml · 13.2%
$58
Nº 02
The Story
We started Afterlight in the last hour of a long summer day in 2019. The light on the coast hills had gone pale gold, the kind of light that makes you think about the year ahead and the years behind, and we'd been talking — as families talk — about what it might mean to make something we'd actually want to drink.
"We don't believe great wine is loud. We think it's quiet — and that it asks you
to lean in."
The fourteen acres we farm sit on a hillside in the Mayacamas, looking east over Napa Valley, where the fog lingers an hour later than anywhere else nearby. We pick early. We use native yeasts. We work in neutral oak and concrete, never new wood. And we bottle, generally, with a long pause between racking and release — long enough that the wines have time to figure out what they want to say.
What we want to make are wines that taste like a place and a time: this hillside, these vines, this hour just before the day disappears. Wines that reward attention. Wines for the afterlight.
Elena & Tomás Marin
Founders · Winemakers