Vibrant strawberry and red cherry with orange peel and lavender aromatics lead to blueberry, spicy clove, and velvety texture, finishing with pomegranate, cola, and black tea.
91 pts
Wine Spectator
"Clean and centered on ripe cherry, plum and blueberry notes, with a dusty earth edge and tannins that grow and cling in a pleasing manner. Drink now through 2020. 860 cases made."
SPECS
PRODUCTION: 797 cases
APPELLATION: Sonoma Coast
VARIETAL:Pinot Noir
HARVESTED: Oct. 4th - Oct. 15th, 2013
FERMENTATION: 5 day cold soak, Stainless steel fermentation
When it was planted in 1996, Kanzler Estate was one of the first vineyards in the rolling hills southwest of the picturesque town of Sebastopol in western Sonoma County. Only eight miles from the Pacific Ocean, the area was long thought to be too cool and foggy for grape growing. But the site proved to be ideal for the notoriously difficult to grow Pinot Noir grape. Pinot prefers a cool climate and reaches exceptional expression in the well-drained Goldridge soils predominant here. Here, the long summer days are sunny but tempered by cooling afternoon breezes from the ocean nearby. Most nights the fog rolls in to further cool the vines, allowing the grapes to ripen slowly and develop the deep, complex and concentrated flavors for which our grapes are known.
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