Adding to cart
Please wait ...
Added to your cart
View Cart
Subtotal: $

2008 Saintsbury Pinot Noir Stanly Ranch

Pinot Noir: 750ml

$29.99

about this wine:

The modern viticultural history of Carneros begins on Stanly Ranch in the 1950s when Louis Martini who then owned part of the historic property began a clonal trial of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay with UC Davis and another historic California wine family, the Wentes.

The historic ranch of Judge Stanly greets visitors to the Napa Valley as they drive up Highway 29 towards the city of Napa and anchors the southeastern corner of the Carneros. The fourth incarnation of grape vines on this property began in 2001 with the development of 350 acres of vines using modern clones, spacing and vertical trellising on the property's clay-loam soils and gently rolling hills. Saintsbury has purchased Stanly Ranch fruit since the 1984 vintage and during the last 20 years it has been a significant source for the Carneros Pinot Noir and Reserve bottlings. It has come full circle with the Vineyard Series Stanly Ranch replacing the Reserve Pinot Noir in our Pinot Noir lineup.

See Ratings and Reviews
points awarded:
WS 90

90 points,

Wine Spectator, September 2010

Combines delicate, ripe, up-front plum and black cherry fruit with firmer tannins and mineral and cedary oak touches. Full-bodied, complex and focused, ending with a mix of pastel flavors. Drink now through 2015. 1,925 cases made. -JL


90 points,

Wine Spectator, September 2010

Combines delicate, ripe, up-front plum and black cherry fruit with firmer tannins and mineral and cedary oak touches. Full-bodied, complex and focused, ending with a mix of pastel flavors. Drink now through 2015. 1,925 cases made. -JL


About Winery

Probably the first hint that Saintsbury might turn out to be a bit different from other wineries was when Dick Ward and David Graves chose to make a 1979 Santa Barbara barrel-fermented dry Riesling as one of their first wines, a bottling that didn't exactly have consumer demand behind it.

It turns out that the limb upon which Saintsbury's founders stepped in the late 1970s and early 1980s was occupied by a few other trailblazers who were caught up in what David describes as a "Zeitgeist" of innovation and change that pervaded the California wine industry at the time.   With the release of Saintsbury's first 2000 cases of Pinot Noir in 1981 and by committing to pursuing high quality California Pinot Noir, Dick and Dave put themselves in the forefront of a movement that would eventually catapult California wines, Carneros Pinot Noir and Saintsbury onto the world wine stage.


Shipping Details

This is a pre-arrival item. You will be contacted once this product has arrived at our warehouse to arrange delivery.

Need it faster? Call us now at (888) 859-4637 for special arrangements.

Free storage available. We offer free 6 months storage for any wine purchased at JJ Buckley. We highly recommend storing your wines during the summer months to avoid heat damage during shipment.

For a shipping quote, add this product to your shopping cart. From there you will be able to enter a zipcode and get a detailed quote. For full details on our shipping policies, click here.

all vintages of this wine:
ALL
all sizes of this wine:
ALL 750ml
Legal and Privacy Info