A Visit to Clos Saron and Gideon Beinstock

Though I have been writing about the wines made by Gideon Beinstock for 20 years, I met him for the first time three weeks ago at a

dinner party in the Sierra Foothills, northeast of Sacramento. Around dusk, a group of us were sitting outside, and Beinstock opened a bottle of his Clos Saron Out of the Blue 2013, a blend of 90 percent cinsault and five pe…