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PERILUNE This year, Greg released his newest label PERILUNE. The brand and the vineyard share the name, which means a spot in orbit closest to the moon. Greg chose the name because the stark, empty, and contemplative landscape of the Sta. Rita Hills reminds him of the moon. Working closely with Greg, Senior Designer Tami Lovett-Brumfield explored concepts that would convey PERILUNE’s lunar-like topography and space-like feel of the concrete eggs used to make the wine. A designer and illustrator by trade, Tami handcrafted textures with sumi and Indian inks, black gouache, and acrylic paints, applying the media with traditional sumi brushes, sticks, natural sponges, and handmade circular stamps. The final art is a digitized version of the tactile media, exploring the interplay of dark and light or yin and yang. It conveys stillness and calm with smooth black areas balancing warm gold textural spheres meant to evoke the sun and the moon. In bringing PERILUNE to life, Greg and his team deliberately chose a singular concrete egg because it is a neutral vessel that offers a different, yet clean expression of the grape and its terroir. The egg’s symbolic representation of birth was also important. PERILUNE Chardonnay is harvested early and malolactic fermentation is inhibited to capture a higher octave and less fruit-forward voice of place. The wine has a subtle quietness about itself and a feeling of serenity. PERILUNE Pinot Noir is fully destemmed prior to fermentation, after which the wine is pressed into the egg for it to evolve within, yielding an expression that is a bit racier with a bigger personality. Only 75 cases each of PERILUNE Pinot Noir and Chardonnay were produced for the inaugural 2022 vintage.