2015 Kanzler Estate Vineyard Reserve Pinot Noir
92 pts
Jeb Dunnuck
"The 2015 Pinot Noir Estate Reserve is deeper ruby-colored and offers a more masculine, smoky, earthy profile. Currants, smoked herbs, damp earth, and meaty notes all flow to a concentrated, medium-bodied Pinot Noir that has good acidity, integrated tannin, and a clean, lengthy finish. Where the straight Russian River Valley cuvée is ready to go, this will benefit from a year or three of bottle age."
SPECS
PRODUCTION: 225 cases
APPELLATION: Russian River Valley
VARIETAL: Pinot Noir
HARVESTED: Sept. 9th-21st 2015
FERMENTATION: 5 day cold soak, Stainless steel fermentation
AGING:
14 months in 100% French Oak, 33% New
BOTTLED:
January 16, 2017
ALCOHOL:
PH: 3.58
WINEMAKER: Alex Kanzler
VINEYARD COMPOSITION
100% Kanzler Estate
ACCOLADES
92 pts - Jeb Dunnuck
91 pts - Wine Spectator
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Introducing
Kanzler Estate Vineyard
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.