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Wine Details
Price:
$60.00 per bottle
Description:
This looks to be the last vintage I make from this vineyard and it's been a good run. I made a Hirsch sparkling wine from this year also but it won't be available for 2-3 years. The price of the fruit now would require me to charge twice as much as I do now and I don't want to do that. Twenty-three years ago I wrote on a home wine label that 'we were dedicated to producing fine wine because we couldn't afford it!' and I don't want to make my wine unaffordable to myself! As with each Hirsch, the color is extremely dark for a pinot, the nose has an explosive amount of fruit and spice. The nose has lots of cinnamon and stone fruit with creme overtones. Full rich and round in the mouth, warm and smooth. The finish is still evolving, it took the '99 a year to really come around. Enjoy this wine in 2-3 years,(and on) with big food and hope we see this fruit in the future. There is only half as much of this vintage as last year! Sob!
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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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