Vaughn Duffy Russian River Valley Pinot Noir Bacigalupi Vineyards 2023 OTHERREGION British wine merchant Christopher Cannan

British wine merchant Christopher Cannan founded the estate in 1997 on land that Priorat pioneer Rene Barbier showed him

classical Cabernet-led structure (55%)

a former Morgan winemaker who launched his own micro-negociant label after stints in Bordeaux

Freed from the three-year aging requirement that governs Barolo

Vaughn Duffy Russian River Valley Pinot Noir Bacigalupi Vineyards 2023 OTHERREGION British wine merchant Christopher CannanThe Bacigalupi name sits inside one of California's founding legends: their Chardonnay made up a large share of the 1973 Chateau Montelena that beat white Burgundy in Paris in 1976. Three generations later the family still farms the same Westside Road ground in the Russian River Valley, and their Pinot Noir is some of the most sought after fruit in Sonoma. Matt Duffy and Sara Vaughn get a small allocation of it and bottle it on its own rather than