Don Van Staaveren is the winemaker, who came to Artesa directly from Chateau St. Jean where he had been on a serious roll of winning gold medals and top scores for everything from Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc and Riesling, to Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Meritage Red. It's interesting to note that his best wines from the new collection are all Pinot Noirs. The wines are newly released and just finding their way into distribution. Lots of cherry fruit and some earthy complexity. Fuller, riper style.
Flavors lean more to plum and darker cherry.
Intense bouquet of crushed petals of dying rose. Darkest color and fullest body of the three Pinots. It wants a prime rib or maybe a duck loin in a savory sauce. The winery also has released a wood-style Sauvignon Blanc and two Chardonnays. Pozzan doesn't have a real bricks and mortar winery with a tasting room, but he makes wine nevertheless.