2024 Saveria Vineyard Pinot Noir, Santa Cruz Mountains

AROMA
preserved cherry, earl grey, orange peel
FLAVOR
sassafrass, black plum, red rose
FOOD PAIRINGS
wild mushroom tartine, tea smoked duck, squid ink pasta

Saveria sits in a maritime canyon on Pleasant Valley Road near Aptos,
where the Monterey Bay fog dissipates into patchy sunlight. Its deep
fan of colluvial sand reacts quickly to shifts in temperature, a trait our
viticulturalist Prudy Foxx likens to a great white shark, though we’re
more interested in the effect on the grapes than the metaphor. On
these reflective, sandy soils Pinot Noir develops a delicate, sourish
berry character with leafy complexity, nuanced aromatics, and a
precision that has become easily likened to this site. The 2024 vintage
delivered us eight bins of uniform, palm-sized, and perfectly ripe
clusters—AKA “grenades.” Fellow winemakers at our winemaking
Co-op could only marvel and offer vague guesses about the source.
We weren't drawing any maps for them. One must protect their
sources from prying eyes! Saveria Pinot Noir just hits different with a
tone as singular as Jimmy Page's Les Paul. You know it immediately
when you hear it / taste it.