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Wine Details
Price:
$38.00 per bottle
Description:
This marks the first vintage of Jennifer’s "Lea" brand Pinot Noir. The grapes for this Pinot blend were sourced from two prime Santa Rita Hills vineyards, Zotovich and Turner. After picking at 25.3 brix, the wine was made in true Tensley tradition; 70% of the grapes were destemmed by gravity and fed into open top fermenters and the remaining 30% were left as whole clusters. The wine was punched down three times daily for 21 days and pressed straight to neutral French oak barrels. It was then aged on the lees for one year before being bottled unfined and unfiltered. This wine is brimming with bright strawberry and spice and shows a rounded, silky texture and long finish. While this Pinot is drinking beautifully now, it will continue to age intriguingly over the next 4 to 6 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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