Tomales Vineyard is a new venture co-pioneered by Bryan Whipple and Betsy Strohl.

One our 14-acre property east of the western Marin County village of Tomales, we are in the process of planting a trial patch of Pinot Noir.  If the one-acre trial seems able to set and ripen its fruit under our conditions, we will expand suitably to achieve a very small, family-farm style, integrated vineyard and winery operation.  Target production is approximately 1,250 cases per year.

Tomales Vineyard will (to the extent possible) adhere to the following concepts:

• Organic viticulture following CCOF guidelines
• We grow every grape we crush
• We crush every good grape we grow
• We grow, crush and sell nothing but our own estate-bottled Pinot Noir
• One release per vintage
• Sales at the winery or by mailing list only, with production limited accordingly
• Each vintage priced according to its value, which will necessarily fluctuate from vintage to vintage

*With, however, a variety of clones in our plantings to provide desired complexity)