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Wine Details
Price:
$38.00 per bottle
Description:
Silver Medal at the 2005 California State Fair Wine Competition! Produced from grapes in one of the worlds best growing regions for Pinot Noir-Santa Lucia Highlands. This is a Monterey County appellation, where warm summer days ripen this fruit to perfection, and the cool evenings allow the fruit to hand long enough on the vines to develop mature complex flavors that make this Pinot Noir a perfect match for a variety of cuisines. Wonderful flavors of black cherry, toasty oak, dark berries and spices are enjoyed along with a beautiful bouquet that is released with a swirl and a sniff. This wine is ready for drinking now but will age nicely for another 7-8 years.
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Varietal Definition
Pinot Noir:
The name is derived from the French words for ‘pine’ and ‘black’ alluding to the varietals' tightly clustered dark purple pine cone shaped bunches of fruit. Pinot Noir grapes are grown around the world, mostly in the cooler regions, but the grape is chiefly associated with the Burgundy region of France. It is widely considered to produce some of the finest wines in the world, but is a difficult variety to cultivate and transform into wine. By volume most Pinot Noir in America is grown in California with Oregon coming in second. Other regions are Washington State and New York.During 2004 and the beginning of 2005, Pinot Noir became considerably more popular amongst consumers in the United States, possibly because of the movie Sideways. Being lighter in style, it has benefited from a trend toward more restrained, less alcoholic wines. It is the delicate, subtle, complex and elegant nature of this wine that encourages growers and winemakers to cultivate this difficult grape. Robert Parker has described Pinot Noir: "When it's great, Pinot Noir produces the most complex, hedonistic, and remarkably thrilling red wine in the world."
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