Tasting Notes: As you smell the wine in your glass, you will notice red berries, cranberry, cherry cola, savory spices, a hint of black tea, fresh earth and sweet, spicy vanilla contributed from the oak barrel aging. This wine is beautifully structured with smooth, fine tannins that add to the intensity of the warm spices and red berry flavors. You will find balanced acidity, a juicy core and a medium length on the finish.

Winemaker Notes: Our Owsley and Vine Hill vineyards in the Russian River Valley provided the Pinot Noir for this vintage. The Owsley ranch, with its dramatic temperature changes from warm days to cool, foggy nights, creates concentrated and complex flavors in the grapes. Vine Hill vineyard, with its more than 300-feet elevation change, allows each ridge, slope, and valley in the vineyard to contribute unique characteristics to the grapes. Combined with a variety of soils and clones, high-density spacing and rootstocks that limit excessive vine growth, the vineyards provide a beautiful variety of elegant fruit. It is from this fruit that we craft our Sonoma-Cutrer Russian River Valley Pinot Noir.

Varietal Composition: 100% Pinot Noir