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Label: 2016, Scherrer, Russian River Valley, Sonoma County, Pinot Noir, Alcohol 14.5% by volume

Pinot Noir
Russian River Valley, 2016

$ 24.00 – $ 260.00

While grown primarily in the sandy Goldridge soil, which tends to produce Pinot Noir with flavors of red fruits and orange peel, this wine also illustrates some of the deep, brooding black cherry character generally found in the region’s clay soils. It was bottled without fining or filtration, and should age gracefully for a handful of years.

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Winemaker's Notes

This is our main Pinot bottling and focus as far as the hierarchy of bottlings is concerned. It regularly outperforms more highly priced vineyard-designate bottlings in truly blind wine tastings such as those done by The California Grapevine. So, for those not able or willing to wait for the 2018 Russian River Valley Pinot Noir futures to be available a year from now, this will scratch that itch nicely in the meantime as well as many years into the future.

I am absolutely in love with the perfumes of this wine that range from roses to what I recall in a young 1989 LeRoy Latricières-Chambertin (a real benchmark wine tasting experience I had in the early 1990’s). It has good structure yet drinks nicely at this early stage.

Besides the high-toned perfumes, fresh plum, Royal Ann cherry, sandalwood, freshly tilled loam greets the nose. There’s also the orange peel signature of Goldridge soils along this corridor along Highway 116 between Forestville and Sebastopol as well. On the mouth it is lively, mouth-watering and invites another sip, especially when served at dinner. It is absolutely perfect with Salmon.

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