Joel Peterson founded Ravenswood and effectively wrote the modern playbook on California Zinfandel. After selling Ravenswood, he started Once & Future to get back to the small-lot, old-vine, sensitive-to-site work he loved in the first place. As Joel puts it, Napa would be famous for Petite Sirah if it weren’t for Cabernet. Palisades is a narrow vineyard tucked under the cliffs east of Calistoga, planted to old 8×8 head-pruned vines that deliver black-fruited, structured, deeply spiced Petite Sirah. Native yeast, open fermenters, hand punch-downs, French oak. Old-school Napa from the source.