Established in 1974, the Lorenzo Vineyard has some of the oldest plantings of Chardonnay on AxR1 rootstock in California. Lorenzo escaped the wave of phylloxera through the 1980s and reached a venerable maturity due to the fact that no one other than the Bazzano family has farmed this site in its 40 years. The soils contain a high percentage of clay which expresses itself with a distinctive minerality in the wine.