Sonoma Vineyard Hills
Sonoma County stretches north from San Pablo Bay across about 1,768 square miles of coastal mountains, ridgeline forest, and the long valleys where the wine country lives. The Sonoma Valley itself was the first commercial wine region in California; Buena Vista Winery dates from 1857 and the Mayacamas Range divides its slopes from those of Napa to the east. Eighteen American Viticultural Areas cross the county now, from the cool Sonoma Coast pinot noir hills inland through Russian River, Dry Creek, Alexander Valley, and the warmer slopes of Knights Valley. In late October the hills turn gold and red between the standing rows. The fog burns off the valley floor by ten and the air smells like crushed fruit.
Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.