Lytton Springs: An Exceptional Piece of Ground

Longtime Winemaker and Chairman Paul Draper looks back on his discovery of a little-known vineyard named Lytton Springs in the winter of 1971 and how its 19th century vines have produced remarkably complex wines since our first bottling nearly fifty years ago.

“Lytton Springs, from that ’72 on, the wines just were so consistently good. It just was one of those vineyards that made itself because of being in the right place, in the right soil, in the right climate.”
-Paul Draper