Product Description
This wine is medium garnet in color and shows dark and red, brambly fruits and cola on the nose. The palate bursts for the with red and black fruits – essences of blackberry, pomegranate, red and black cherries. The rich and soft mouthfeel leads to a long lingering finish, with elegantly integrated tannins.
Balanced and complex, this wine is drinkable now, but should age nicely for another 10+ years
Showing delightful fruity tones it has some flexibility with regards to pairing. I think this wine right now, is tasting like an excellent Thanksgiving wine!
Clone: 777 and unknown clone
Rootstock: 3309
100% destemmed Pinot Noir, 5 day cold soak, native fermentation in open-top fermenters. Two punch-downs per day. Inoculated with EnoFerm Alpha for malolactic fermentation. 100% French oak, 30% new. 17 months in barrel.
pH 3.70
TA 5.6 g/L
Alcohol 14.7%
Harvested: 9/20/16
Bottled:
2/8/18
Produced: 65 cases
Released: Fall 2019
This is a small family-owned vineyard located in Sebastopol that has a nice variety of clones with great aspect and soil type to grow Pinot Noir. The vines were planted in 2003 and the soil is Goldridge – a fine sandy loam over a subsoil of golden yellow sandy loam and fractured sandstone. This vineyard has excellent drainage and low soil fertility.