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Wine Details
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Our Pinot Noir is produced from fruit grown on our Sonoma Coast Four Sisters Vineyard located a few miles west of Sonoma Valley. The wine is 100% varietal. Previous vintages were sold to a number of top Pinot Noir producers, including David Bruce and Williams Selyem. Very high quality French burgundy clones 777, 115, Pommard, and Swan are grown in this vineyard. By maintaining low yields - about 2 1/2 to 3 tons per acre - this vineyard produces intensely flavored fruit.
During crush, free-run juice is placed in stainless steel tanks for primary fermentation. After fermentation, the wines receive 6 months of French oak aging, creating a wine that is more complex with wonderful upfront blackberry taste and a delicious, rich, long finish. Wine maker tasting notes: Beautiful dark ruby color. Blackberry with hints of clove and cinnamon. Great forward fruit and very soft tannins make this beautifully balanced wine very accessible. Food suggestions: chicken, beef, lamb, veal, pasta, and duck.
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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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