Fe is the periodic symbol for iron, and the name — pronounced "fee" — was winemaker Aaron Pott's suggestion for a site defined by iron-rich red soils. Pott had actually seen the property before he met the owners: a real estate agent asked him to evaluate it, and he found Aiken clay loam over Forward volcanic tuff and needed only a brief visit to know. Jon and Joanne Goldstein bought the seventeen-acre parcel in the Spring Mountain foothills, halfway between St. Helena and Calistoga, in 2012. It was virgin ground that happened to come with a planting permit, tucked on a secluded benchland ringed by nearly two thousand acres of parkland, redwoods and native grasses. Under five acres are planted across six blocks — mostly Cabernet Sauvignon with roughly a third of an acre each of Malbec, Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot — farmed organically, hand-picked in the cool morning and worked in a gravity-flow cellar. The first small crop came in 2015. Fewer than 600 cases are made across an estate Cabernet and a blend called 26, the atomic number of iron.