Purlieu — “the edge of the forest” or “an outlying area” — is a reference to the home of Purlieu in the new Coombsville AVA, at the edge of the forest and the Napa Valley.
The Purlieu objective is always balance: healthy fruit at peak ripeness, with power but also with freshness. With balance comes the capacity for wine to age, fascinate and excite.
The Napa Valley is blessed with a dizzying array of soil strata, microclimates and exposures. Purlieu has sourced the fruit for their flagship Purlieu, and its sister label Le Pich, from a variety of top vineyard sites throughout the Napa Valley. They rely on their strong relationships with the best growers and their ability to walk the vines daily.
Winemaker, Julien Fayard, ensures that every cluster on every vine is treated as an individual and receives the precise amount of both nourishment and stress needed to produce perfectly balanced fruit