Clos Saron

Gideon Beinstock and his wife Saron release tiny amounts of wine each year from their winery in Oregon House, California. These are limited — production ranges from 22 to 100 cases — and they represent a winery achieving a new level of excellence as it spins itself into legend. 

These are powerful expressions of place. They twist in turn in the glass, revealing flashes of stoney concentration and brilliant, sheer fruit shining within dark earthy matter. If you open them now, you’ll find the pleasurable quirks of youth. Waiting two, ten, twenty years will reveal a deeper identity, one that clearly belongs to the spirit of the vineyard. Given how limited these are, I’ll recommend snatching up as many as possible. Whenever I’m given the chance, I buy as many as I can and hide them from myself.