"Brewer-Clifton focuses solely on the production of vineyard designated Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. Greg Brewer and Steve Clifton have set out to put the best vineyards in Santa Barbara into a bottle. Pinot Noir is fermented 100% as whole clusters of grapes for 7 days cold soak, 2 weeks of fermentation and 10 or more days of extended maceration. Ageing takes place exclusively in barrels from the Sirugue cooperage in Nuits St. Georges.
This bottling is a diverse blend of pinot noir vineyards from within the AVA. It is a combination of Mount Carmel, 3-D, Machado, Ampelos, Zotovich and Sebastiano vineyards. This is not a 'second bottling'; rather, they use the same exact fruit that goes into their single vineyard wines." - Importer