Alfaro Family Santa Cruz Mtns Estate "A" Pinot Noir 2024 4JULY25SALE and their two Chignin-Bergeron cuvées

and their two Chignin-Bergeron cuvées (Bergeron is Savoie's name for Roussanne) trade off as a study in terroir

A majority of corn balanced with light malt aged in ex bourbon barrels

A truly unique Chardonnay from the Cotes de Blancs

Across the Morey lineup

Alfaro Family Santa Cruz Mtns Estate "A" Pinot Noir 2024 4JULY25SALE and their two Chignin-Bergeron cuvéesCorralitos sits at the cool, foggy southern edge of the Santa Cruz Mountains, and the microclimate here ripens Pinot Noir slowly and at naturally lower alcohol levels exactly what you want. Richard Alfaro's 'A' Pinot is the gateway to his estate range, drawn from his own plantings on a former apple farm that he converted to vines in 1997. A fresh, transparent style of California Pinot Noir, made for the dinner table rather than the scoresheet, and