From a remote coastal vineyard on Manchester Ridge in the Mendocino Ridge Appellation, overlooking the Pacific Ocean and the town of Manchester in the distance below. The vineyard itself is on a mesa about 7 miles off the paved road, in a wild and scenic spot. Clean air, ocean breezes, ridge heat. The soil type, Ornbaum-Zeni, are complex loam soils and characteristic of this terroir, which includes redwoods, Douglas firs, oaks and manzanita.