Domaine Jonathan Pey

After almost three decades of growing and making small lots of tasty California and Oregon wines under the Scenic Root Winegrowers name, I made the difficult decision to shift focus. After living through northern California's devastating drought and wildfires I decided the first vineyard I would purchase must be in a high-altitude, cool location that had plentiful water, diverse soils and very old vines. I wanted gnarled old-vines of character, not the clonal copycats so prevalent today. So where did I go? To the chilly hills of southern Burgundy – to the fabled hillsides of Morgon and Fleurie.

Today I own two vineyards in Burgundy's southernmost reaches in the historic Appellation Protegées of Morgon and Fleurie. Organically farmed and made with minimal interventions, my two wines precisely express the "where" more than the "who". Pull up a chair and check them out.