Wild Ridge Pinot Noir is grown on a vineyard on the far western edge of the Sonoma Coast at 900 feet elevation, a stone's throw from the hamlet of Annapolis.
The winemaker is Craig McAllister, a New Zealand native who worked in New Zealand and Australia before joining La Crema as an enologist. After harvests in Chile and Cyprus, he returned to La Crema and became assistant winemaker in 2011. He joined Wild Ridge in 2011