Brewer-Clifton

Brewer-Clifton is the most critically acclaimed and most individually single-vineyard-comparative Sta. Rita Hills Pinot Noir and Chardonnay specialist in Santa Barbara County. Greg Brewer and Steve Clifton — who established their partnership in 1995 with the conviction that the Sta. Rita Hills' specific Pacific-wind-channeled and diurnally-temperature-swinging cool growing corridor produced Pinot Noir and Chardonnay of individual named-vineyard character deserving the most Burgundy-grand-cru-philosophy-specifically-comparative and minimal-intervention winemaking available — created a single-vineyard program of extraordinary critical recognition.

The Brewer-Clifton single-vineyard lineup — Melville, Cargasacchi, Sweeney Canyon, Hapgood, and other named Sta. Rita Hills designates — provides the most comprehensive and comparatively educational Sta. Rita Hills Pinot Noir and Chardonnay terroir demonstration available from any single Santa Barbara County producer. Each named vineyard expresses a specific combination of Sta. Rita Hills wind exposure, soil composition, and elevation in the most individually minimal-intervention and Burgundy-philosophy-comparative-educational format.

Wine Advocate has consistently scored Brewer-Clifton's named single-vineyard Sta. Rita Hills Pinot Noir and Chardonnay at 93–98 points — placing this most individually vineyard-comparative-educational and Burgundy-philosophy-Sta-Rita-Hills-specifically-committed luxury California Pinot Noir and Chardonnay program among the most critically perfect and most intellectually rigorous cool-climate California wine appointments available.