Lot Nº LV-21-014
The Ledger
2021 · Estate Pinot Noir
Black cherry, forest floor, dried bay — the row-by-row account of a cool year.
pH 3.61 · ABV 13.2% · 28 barrels
Allocated — members first
Estate winery · Alder Valley — est. 1962
Ledger & Vine
Bottled where the ledger meets the vine.
Nº 01 — The wines
Four wines. No filler.
Everything we grow is on this page. Each lot is entered in the estate ledger the day it is picked and again the day it is bottled — what you read below is the current account.
Lot Nº LV-22-007
Marginalia
2022 · Old-Vine Chenin Blanc
Quince, beeswax, wet stone — the note written in the margin of the harvest.
pH 3.28 · ABV 12.8% · 11 barrels
Available now
Lot Nº LV-19-031
Double Entry
2019 · Cellar-Release Syrah
Violet, smoked plum, cracked pepper. Seven years in our books before yours.
pH 3.74 · ABV 14.1% · 19 barrels
Cellar release — 96 cases
Lot Nº LV-24-002
Carried Forward
2024 · Rosé of Grenache
Blood orange, rose petal, sea salt — the sum carried forward into summer.
pH 3.19 · ABV 12.4% · 9 barrels
Sold out — join the waitlist
Nº 02 — The club
Three ways to sit at the table.
Allocations leave the cellar in March, June, September and December. Pause a quarter, or part ways, whenever you like — no small print, no cellar guilt.
Folio
For the curious table.
$95/ quarter
- Three estate bottles, quarterly
- Member pricing on reorders
- Release notes with every lot
Most poured
Cellar
For the standing Tuesday bottle.
$180/ quarter
- Six bottles, one from the library
- Member pricing on reorders
- Two seated tastings a year
- First offer on cellar releases
Ledger
For the full account.
$340/ quarter
- Twelve bottles, large formats included
- First allocation on every lot
- Unlimited seated tastings
- The winemaker's dinner, each harvest
Tasting fees are waived for members. Shipping is on us from the Cellar tier up.
Nº 03 — The estate
Fifty-eight vintages, one green ledger.
“Every row, every barrel,
every debt to the weather.”
Our founder kept the vineyard's books in the same green ledger for forty years — pickers' wages on the left page, the weather's opinion on the right. The habit stuck. We still farm the Ribbonwood Bench the way it was entered in 1962: dry, by hand, eighteen hectares and not one more.
Nothing here is scaled. The cellar holds what the bench gives us in a good year and less in an honest one. When a wine isn't right, it stays in barrel and the page stays open — which is why some vintages on this site are marked cellar release and some are simply gone.
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Nº 04 — Visit
The tasting room keeps short hours on purpose.
Seated tastings only — ninety minutes, five wines, one table at a time. $45 a guest, waived for members.
Guests
Day
Seating
Saturday · 13:00 · 2 guests
The vine keeps its own accounts.
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