Alfaro Family Santa Cruz Mtns Estate "A" Pinot Noir 2024 2025 L'Assemblage Part 1 and Mugnier owns a significant

and Mugnier owns a significant share of it

age-worthy and rare

The Cote Blonde is the more lyrical of Cote-Rotie's two great hills — granitic and sand-dappled

one detects white fruit like the firm flesh of crisp pear

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Alfaro Family Santa Cruz Mtns Estate "A" Pinot Noir 2024 2025 L'Assemblage Part 1 and Mugnier owns a significantCorralitos 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