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Wine Details
Price:
$30.00 per bottle
Description:
This vintage displays a deep strawberry color with a beautiful tint of ruby. The wild strawberry bouquet overwhelms the senses with promise of bing cherry and fruit complexities sure to follow in the body of this wine. Concentrated red bing cherry is the first sensation your palate receives, concluded with hints of raspberry and strawberry, wrapped up in a lush velvety middle that coats the palate. Slight hints of earth will develop over time, creating the beautiful balance of fruit and earth that we have come to expect from our Burgundian style Pinot Noir. The finish flows from the middle to the outskirts of the palate, which will later allow the layered complexities of fruit and spice to unfold as this wine matures.
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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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