Elevation & Soils
Both elevation and soils have a significant impact on J Wrigley wines. Vines in our vineyard are planted betweeen 600 and 725 feet above sea level, which represents the higher end of typical elevation levels in the area. (Typically, vines below 250 feet in elevation risk potential damage from frost. Vines above 1000 feet face a higher potential of freezing and may have difficulty ripening.)
Our vineyard faces Southeast with a 12% slope, which allows cooler air to flow off the vineyard into the valleys below.
Our soil is a complex mix of volcanic and marine sedimentary soils. Over time we have been able to identify the effects of different soils on each clone with such precision that vineyard managers can predict different harvest times for rows in the same block, simply based on "fingers" of certain soils that run through each area.
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