Hess Select winemakers explore California's Central Coast growing region, with a particular fondness for the famed Pinot Noir grown in the Santa Lucia Highlands and the Santa Maria Valley. This vintage features a blend of 78% fruit from Monterey, with much of that from the Sarmento Vineyard in SLH, and 22% from the Santa Maria Valley, where Pinot Noir benefits from the cooling ocean influence brought onshore through mountain ranges oriented west to east.