Sphaerics Pinot Noir Superset Sonoma Coast 2024

Every so often, we meet a new producer, and everything just clicks. Sphaerics is one such case – the team is salt-of-the-earth. PURE talent. The wines are immaculate top to bottom. And everything about what they’re doing is what the wine industry should be about: good people, proper land stewardship, killer wines. We’re thrilled to share their debut Pinot Noir with you today!

Sphaerics is named after the foundational treatise of the same name based on spherical geometry produced 2,000 ago by Theodosius of Bithynia. His work was based on the brilliant minds that came before him, and is still used as a reference for mathematicians and astronomers today. Similarly, winemaker Laura Jones and her husband Brian Ball call on styles and processes from classic winemaking approaches to serve as an inspiration in their own excellent line-up of resplendent Chardonnay and Pinot Noir wines.

The duo launched this project in 2022 with a stern focus on vineyard selection, careful detail-orientation, and traditional winemaking practices, a nod to Laura’s time spent cutting her teeth at the renowned wineries of Aubert and Domaine Armand Rousseau. After we had the privilege of spending some time with them and tasting through their wines, our team was utterly in awe. These wines are some of the most beautifully Burgundian in style you’ll find in California, and we’re stoked to see talented winemakers like Laura carving out space to build something of her own at such a high level.

Grown among the Sonoma Coast’s famed Goldridge soils on the gently rolling hills of two Martinelli properties (Frei Road and Bondi Home Ranch), the grapes are balanced by foggy mornings and breezy, sunny afternoons. As the first Pinot from Sphaerics, it wears the title well with inky dark cherries, wild lavender, and seductive dried herbs offering an elegant experience and loads of layer-packed character.