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Wine Details
Price:
$35.00 per bottle
Description:
Quite approachable with dark cherry fruit and a hint of spice. The Estate Pinot Noir 2002 is farmed and crafted with the same quality standards as our Pinot Noir Estate Reserve wines, cropped to two tons/acre, hand-sorted and fermented in small lots.
To highlight the fruit and structure of this wine, we use four selected yeast strains and twenty percent new French oak. The hint of spice is complemented by 16 months of French oak barrel aging.
This Pinot Noir has enough intensity to qualify it for a Wednesday night casual dinner or a Saturday night dinner party. The brightness of this wine marries well with cheese fondue, red pasta sauces, salmon, barbeque meats, pork roasts, and wild mushrooms.
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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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