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Wine Details
Price:
$48.00 per bottle
Description:
Klopp’s Pinot Noir grapes have unmatched character: deep color, rich aromas, solid structure and bountiful tannins. Using my Méthode à l’Ancienne approach and aging the wine in 75% new French oak barrels, I secure these natural traits and develop the wine’s enormous potential to age well over many years. Klopp Ranch may be the longest lived of our Pinot Noirs.
Complex, dense and richly textured, this opulent offering has the most generous tannins of any wine I produce. It deserves a substantial food companion, perhaps venison or buffalo. Serve it with a cheese course featuring a heady triple cream alongside dried figs. As it softens with age, this Pinot Noir - served in big, bowled glasses - will complement a grilled grass-fed beefsteak or a deluxe hamburger laced with black truffles
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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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