A continuous film follows one wine from vineyard to glass: dawn over a terraced mountain vineyard, dew on the ripe clusters, the harvest by hand, the crush inside a sandstone winery, fermentation, a long rest in the barrel cellar, bottling and corking, the wine poured on a terrace, and the finished bottle standing before the vineyard at sunset.
Single Estate Wine
Still
A wine made by waiting.
One hillside above the lake
01 - The Fruit
Ripened by Cold Nights
Mountain nights hold the acidity while long dry days bring the sugar. By harvest the skins are thick, dark and covered in dew every morning.Mountain nights hold the acidity, long dry days bring the sugar. By harvest the skins are thick and dark.
- Old vines
- Terraced hillside
- Dry farmed
02 - The Harvest
Cut by Hand, at First Light
Every cluster is cut in the cool of the morning and carried down in small wooden crates, so the fruit reaches the winery whole and still cold from the night.Every cluster is cut in the cool of the morning and carried down in small crates, whole and still cold.
Picked over several mornings, never all at once.
03 - The Crush
Gently Broken
The berries are freed from their stems and barely crushed. Juice and skins fall together into the vat by gravity alone, with nothing pressed and nothing bruised.The berries are freed from their stems and barely crushed, falling into the vat by gravity alone.
- Destemmed
- Gravity fed
- Never pressed
04 - Fermentation
Left to Become Itself
Native yeasts work slowly in small steel vessels. The wine is tasted every morning and moved only when it asks to be. Nothing is added, nothing is hurried.Native yeasts work slowly in small steel vessels. Nothing is added, nothing is hurried.
Three weeks on the skins, then rest.
05 - The Cellar
Time, Held in Oak
In a sandstone cellar cut into the hillside, the wine sleeps in French oak for eighteen months while two seasons pass overhead.In a sandstone cellar cut into the hillside, the wine sleeps in French oak for eighteen months.
No hurry, no interruption.
06 - The Bottle
Sealed Without a Word
Bottled unfined and unfiltered under natural cork, with a plain cream label that says nothing at all. The wine is the only statement.Bottled unfined and unfiltered under natural cork, with a plain cream label. The wine is the only statement.
- Unfined
- Unfiltered
- Natural cork
07 - The Glass
Open Slowly
Decant an hour before dusk. Deep ruby in the glass, dark cherry and dried herbs on the nose, and a long finish that settles into quiet.Decant an hour before dusk. Deep ruby, dark cherry and dried herbs, and a long finish that settles into quiet.
Best shared with the last of the light.
Still, Single Estate
Be Still
One hillside, one vintage a year, a few hundred cases. The rest is time.One hillside, one vintage a year, a few hundred cases. The rest is time.
A single terraced hillside above the lake
Allocation
Reserve Your Allocation
Still is released once a year, in a few hundred cases, to those who asked to wait for it. Tell us who you are and where the wine would travel, and we will write when the vintage is ready.
- Estate
- One hillside above the lake
- Vintage
- One release a year
- Production
- A few hundred cases
- Barrel
- Eighteen months in French oak
- Allocation
- By request only