Clos Saron 'Elegance' Taken from Granite 1996

Available from Petite when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Blend of 63% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Merlot, 12% Cabernet Franc. Gideon’s goal here was to always create a harmonious blend of mostly Bordeaux varieties. Cellar aged and stored. ABOUT Gideon Beinstock and Saron Rice founded Clos Saron in 1999, but the story goes back much further than that. There is an excellent piece by Esther Mobley in the SF Chronicle that goes deep into the history and I highly recommend looking it up. But the short version is that Gideon and Saron met at the Fellowship of F