Terre et Sang Opens Luxurious New Tasting Space in Los Olivos

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Photo by Jimmy Hayes

Dalita and Duncan Harmon person ever loved wine. Mother and son, they decided successful 2019 to crook their passionateness into a household business, settling successful Santa Barbara County amidst immoderate of the champion vineyards successful the world, and launching vino statement Terre et Sang.

The goal? Site-driven Syrah and Grenache. Duncan started by making a tiny magnitude of vino from lesser-known vineyards and from a tiny crippled successful his mother’s backyard. After it turned retired exceptionally well, the duo aimed higher, approaching specified marquee sites arsenic Larner, Bien Nacido and Kimsey for grapes.

“We brought samples of what we had made and explained however we wanted to spouse with them and what we wanted to achieve,” Duncan said. “We were shocked and truthful grateful erstwhile they said yes.”

Duncan and Dalita Harmon. Photo by Jimmy Hayes

They jumped into enactment creating a marque that felt uniquely existent to themselves. No attraction to item is spared; the Harmons tendency that their wines beryllium axenic and reflective of their hard work, honesty, and of the corporate effort it takes to marque each astatine the highest level.

Now, with a fewer vintages nether their belts, the Harmons opened Terre et Sang On Grand successful the bosom of Los Olivos, a tasting abstraction and showcase for their distinctive wines that person reached near-immediate cult status. The historical 1905-era residence has been updated with their ain experimentally modernist viewpoint and aesthetic, and features a chill plot abstraction shaded by olive trees.

Terre et Sang connected Grand Tasting Patio. Photo by Zach Brown of Atlas Imagery

“I privation radical to beryllium excited astir what we are doing,” Duncan added. “I privation radical to autumn successful emotion with the vino and the product, the vision, the story, the approach.”

The Terre et Sang wines are produced successful constricted quantities, highly allocated and critically scored. The wines see Kissing Vipers Bien Nacido Grenache, Leave it to the Birds Peake Ranch Grenache, The Patriarch Larner Vineyard Syrah, Passenger Syrah, The Shadow Bien Nacido Syrah and X Block Bien Nacido Syrah. The vineyards each reside wrong the Santa Maria Valley, Sta. Rita Hills, Ballard Canyon and Santa Barbara County appellations.