Wayfarer

Wayfarer is a small, high‑end estate on the remote western edge of the Sonoma Coast, in the Fort Ross‑Seaview AVA. Napa vintner Jayson Pahlmeyer acquired the former organic farm in the late 1990s and, working with viticulturist David Abreu, planted about 30 acres of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay in tightly defined blocks to capture the site’s extreme slopes, elevations and exposures above the Pacific fog line. His daughter, Cleo Pahlmeyer, launched the Wayfarer label in 2012 and now leads the brand, which has quickly b…