Hartley Ostini Hitching Post Wines is a winery started by Frank Ostini, a restaurant owner and chef, and his best friend, Gray Hartley, who used to be a fisherman in Alaska. Their first vintage was home-made wine in 1979. We made our first Pinot Noir in 1981 and our first wine under the Hitching Post name in 1984. Highliner, the pinnacle of their wines, is an honor given to outstanding fishermen in the Alaska Salmon Fisheries Association's fleet, and is recognized for their 28 years of accomplishments as fishermen.・This is the title given to Hartley. They bestowed that same honor on the best of the Pinot Noir fleet, Hitching Post Pinot Noir. The movie "Sideways" was released in the United States in 2004 and won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and it became such a hot topic that a remake with a Japanese cast was later released. In this movie, the main character, Miles, who loves Pinot Noir and hates Merlot, goes on a winery tour in Santa Barbara with his friends, and the setting for this is the Hitching Post II restaurant. Miles' famous line in the movie, ``I am NOT drinking any fxxking Merlot!'' became a hot topic, and it became a social phenomenon where ordinary consumers who were influenced by the movie stopped buying Merlot at wine shops and restaurants. I did. This movie sparked an unprecedented Pinot Noir boom in the United States, and Pinot Noir from the Santa Barbara region and all over California attracted attention from all over the world, and products continued to sell out. Hitching Post Winery is made by co-owners Frank and Gray and Gray's son, and even today, Hitching Post Winery continues to produce traditional handcrafted wines. The name ``Cork Dancer'' comes from the way salmon jump over nets with cork floats during salmon fishing, and was named by Gray Hartley, a winemaker who had been fishing for salmon in Alaska for 25 years. . Gray is now making wine with Frank Ostini. They hope that when you open the bottle, the wine will dance for you, just as the jumping salmon did for the fishermen. The meaning of the number ``xx.1'' written on the label is - ``x'' is for the 20xx vintage, and ``.1'' is the first of several bottlings. Frank and Gray's goal is to create balanced and elegant wines that express many flavors.