An influential California winemaking duo has parted ways.
Raj Parr and Sashi Moorman, who together helped establish a new paradigm for lower-alcohol, higher-acid West Coast Pinot Noirs and Chardonnays during the 2010s, will no longer work together. Moorman will continue to run the three wineries they once collaborated on — Santa Barbara County’s Domaine de la Cote and Sandhi, and Oregon’s Evening Land — while Parr shifts his focus to his Phelan Farm winery in San Luis Obispo County.
Though the split was formalized only in the last few weeks, it had been a long time coming. Both vintners said that Parr had been less involved in Domaine de la Cote, Sandhi and Evening Land since the pandemic, when he moved to Cambria to grow grapes and make wine at Phelan Farm. “It wasn’t a partnership after I came to Cambria,” Parr said…