Marcassin

Marcassin is one of California’s defining cult wineries, a tiny Sonoma Coast estate created by star winemaker Helen Turley and her husband, viticulturist John Wetlaufer. Founded in the early 1990s, Marcassin spent nearly two decades making its wines at the Martinelli facility in the Russian River Valley before completing its own winery around 2010. The name means “young wild boar” in French, and the estate’s remote, windswept coastal vineyard—planted densely at elevation and farmed for very low yields—has become sy…