A typical Clos Saron Pinot Noir is a broad-shouldered, concentrated wine, with deep fruity flavors and complex, spicy-minerally-earthy layers. Powerfully structured and long on the palate, it will reward long cellaring and reveal its best qualities at the dinner table

Taste of Terroir in the Clos Saron wine:

• Clay soil - black-cherries and rose perfumes, harmony, texture.
• Volcanic minerals (volcanic ash, granite, quartz) - underlying "electric minerality" and spicy tension and a deep - rather than broad - muscular structure.
• California sun - richness of fruit and texture.
• Long growing season - complexity, fine grain, aromatic subtleties.
• Cool mountain night air - delicate aromatic purity and vital acidity.
• Lean mountain topsoil - low yields; concentration, mineral flavor elements.
  Healthy, balanced ecosystem — Vibrant intensity of flavor.

Click on a vintage for tasting notes and to read more about the wines.

2009
Back to Sanity

2008
The even worse frost

2007
The great frost

2006
Balance and harmony

2005
Are we in Burgundy?

2004
The year of Lace

2003
A 1999 look-alike, with more chocolate...

2002
The year of the Flower. Aromatic intensity and purity.

2001
The year of the Spice. Great concentration and aging potential.

2000
The year of the Fruit. Balance, elegance, and purity of fruit characterize the vintage.

1999
The year of the Velvet. The first vintage of our Clos Saron Pinot Noir.