Far Mountain grew out of a last-minute dinner in Napa among old friends that turned into a long argument about where California wine was headed. Rodrigo Soto — who started vineyard work in Chile at fourteen, trained in agronomy, and was the first winemaker to bring biodynamics to Chile by hiring consultant Alan York — was then estate director at Quintessa; his wife Mai Errazuriz, of the Chilean winemaking family, was marketing director for Paul Hobbs. They left both jobs to found Far Mountain in 2018, releasing the 2019 vintage to immediate attention from sommeliers. The wines come exclusively from remote, dry-farmed, high-elevation sites in the Moon Mountain District and Sonoma Valley between roughly 900 and 1,600 feet, on fractured volcanic soils — among them Montecillo, first planted in 1860, and the fifty-year-old Alta Vista terraces. Only Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay are made.