Sonoma County Barrel Auction


These Sonoma County Barrel Auction lots were auctioned off on May 3, 2024. Stay tuned for next year's 2025 SoCoBA lots!



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Lot #3 Benziger Family Winery

“Mother Earth” is a distinctive first bottling from a single block of organically-farmed Old Wente Clone Chardonnay, sourced from the renowned Sangiacomo Vineyard. At Benziger, the Chardonnay grape isn't just a grape, it's a tiny, round…
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Lot #41 Patz & Hall

This lot is composed of 100% Chardonnay from a single barrel from the Patz & Hall Green Valley Estate. The wine contains eight clones of Chardonnay, planted in a Massal Selection to increase aromatic complexity and texture. The clones include…
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Lot #55 Sojourn Cellars

Let's get down to the "bare" facts... Desnudo Vineyard (which translates into 'nude' in Spanish) is located on the southern end of the Mayacamas Mountains, and in the 1940s it was a nudist colony known as Sun-o-ma. The nudist ranch, in its heyday,…

Lot #56 Saintsbury Winery

The Saintsbury Garden is the heart of the Carneros winery, where visitors come to taste and Saints gather and break bread throughout the changing seasons. Planted in the mid-1980s by renowned Landscape Designer Michael Bates of Sonoma Mountain…
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Lot #58 The Donum Estate

Selected from a block of Swan-clone Pinot Noir that used an experimental form of fungal control, in which no toxins are used to control mildew and botrytis, the vines were sprayed with beneficial fungi that outcompete the damaging mildew and…