2021 Détente Pinot Noir

For several years, our adjacent plantings of the French Dijon clone 115 and the first UC Davis clone, Pommard, have impressed us by producing delicious fruit that added great depth and character to our estate wines. As the vines have matured, their uniqueness has become more pronounced.

Given they were both planted the same year, and their soils, row orientation and sun aspects were essentially the same, we were curious to see how the fruit from these two parcels might integrate after fifteen years of vine age. The result was fantastic, and Détente was achieved! This blend of adjacent blocks strengthens our belief that while it admittedly takes time, terroir eventually trumps clonal differences.