Alfaro Family Santa Cruz Mtns Estate "A" Syrah 2023 CRV and his Pinot Grigio has

and his Pinot Grigio has become the bottle that converts skeptics

24 cases made

' the melancholy this wine was supposedly built to chase away

replanting Pauillac land that had sat fallow since phylloxera

but it's the kind that comes from cool-climate freshness rather than ripeness

Alfaro Family Santa Cruz Mtns Estate "A" Syrah 2023 CRV and his Pinot Grigio hasA cool climate Syrah from one of California's most overlooked appellations. Richard Alfaro's estate in Corralitos sits on the ocean facing side of the Santa Cruz Mountains, where Pacific fog and a long, even growing season pull Syrah toward the savory, peppery end of the spectrum rather than the dark and jammy. The "A" bottling pulls from multiple blocks across the estate and spends 12 months in used French oak, leaving the fruit and the cracked