2023 Crocker & Starr, AVA Sauvignon Blanc

For over four decades, Pam Starr has cleaved her own path through the Napa wine scene. After studying fermentation science, she spent years as an enologist in the region and was tapped to become the winemaker at the landmark Spottswoode estate in the early 90s. Immediately, her wines garnered praise for displaying a more elegant and refined take on Napa Cab’s powerful stylings. And it was there that she began upending the world’s notions of what a Napa Valley white wine could be. She employed techniques that were then revolutionary, including long lees aging and stainless steel barrel, to produce white wines of uncommon depth and structure. Moreover, she was doing it not with Napa’s flagship Chardonnay, but with Sauvignon Blanc.   A chance meeting with Charlie Crocker – scion of one of San Francisco’s “big four” families – paved the way for her to join forces with Charlie and provide a new vision for his family’s Napa estate. When Pam came on board in 1997, she immediately changed the