2024 Failla Savoy Vineyard Pinot Noir Mendocino 6pk 6x750ml

Ehren Jordan built Failla after 18 years as winemaker at Turley Wine Cellars, and the difference is intentional. Where Turley chased power, Failla chases finesse — a 180-degree turn toward cool-climate grace, low alcohol, and the kind of structure that makes you reach for food. Jordan's philosophy is simple: get great fruit, then do no harm. He prefers older vines, minimal intervention, and wines built for the table.

Anderson Valley sits in Mendocino's fog belt, where Pacific air funnels through the coastal range and holds temperatures down. It's one of California's coldest Pinot sites — the kind of place that gives you Burgundian tension without the Burgundian passport. Savoy Vineyard joined Failla's Pinot program in 2012, and it's been part of the lineup ever since.

The 2024 vintage delivers exactly what Jordan's after: mulberry and boysenberry preserves, black cherry, plum, graphite. Then leather, incense, tobacco — the savory turn that keeps it from feeling like fruit salad in a glass. There's rose hip and iris woven through, the floral lift that cool sites deliver when the fruit doesn't over-ripen. The acidity is high, the alcohol restrained, and the whole thing is built to sit at a table with short ribs or duck.

This is Pinot for people who think California Pinot tastes like jam. It doesn't. Not when it's grown in the right place by someone who knows when to stop.