Pinot Noir
Sonoma County, 2005

$ 65.00

Pinot Noir from Sonoma County varies in its expression according to where it is grown. This wine exhibits the sassafras character of coastal Pinot Noirs, as well as the cola of those from the area between Sebastopol and Santa Rosa. Moderately structured, it has a central core of red fruits and lightly toasty oak that anchor these coastal and inland elements. It should be at its best two to six years after the vintage.

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Winemaker's Notes

This is our first Pinot Noir offering from this vintage. It was bottled in April, rather late by most folks’ standards yet like many other local Pinot Noirs of the vintage, it will benefit from additional time in bottle. The 2005 vintage played perfectly into our normal sense of aesthetics and style, so it seemed a pretty easy vintage to work with. There seemed to be very little to do except assure that healthy fruit was harvested in its ‘sweet spot’ (aka ‘optimum ripeness’ – whatever that means) and handled appropriately. Rose petal, black pepper, Santa Rosa plum and thyme all take their aromatic turn. In the mouth, it begins broadly, yet the bright acidity rapidly pulls at the edges resulting in a bright, mouth-watering, food-friendly finish.

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