Marcassin Vineyard

Marcassin is the personal domaine of Helen Turley and her husband, John Wetlaufer. Ms. Turley is a tour-de-force winemaker that helped set alight the extraordinary reputations of Turley Wine Cellars, Peter Michael, Colgin, Blankiet and Bryant Family before creating her own personal domaine on the Sonoma Coast. Robert Parker is one of their greatest fans. In his 210th issue, he firmly states, “The visionary husband and wife team of John Wetlaufer and Helen Turley have created a largely unprecedented legacy of extraordinary quality that is unsurpassed by anyone else in Northern California…They were among the first to recognize the extraordinary potential for world-class quality wine production on the Sonoma Coast.” She and her husband produce a series of Chardonnays and Pinot Noirs from their own vineyard fruit, which include the eponymous Marcassin vineyard and the Three Sisters vineyard, which produce Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, as well as Blue Slide Ridge, from which they exclusively produce Pinot Noir. Their wines mostly receive scores in the mid 90s, though they are often close to perfect scores.