Product Description
Perfect with light and delicate food such as steamed or grilled fish and chicken.
Clone: 115, Swan, Pommard and 777 – Blocks 11, 21, 10 and 15
Rootstock: 101-14
100% destemmed Pinot Noir, 5 day cold soak, native fermentation in open-top fermenters. Two punch-downs per day. Inoculated with EnoFerm Alpha for malolactic fermentation.
Cooperage: 100% French, 38% new. 11 months in barrel.
pH 3.54
TA 5.8 g/L
Alcohol 13.9%
Harvested: 10/9/10 and 10/12/10
Bottled:
9/7/11
Produced: 220 cases
Released: March 2014
The Sangiacomo’s Roberts Road Vineyard is a 130 acre vineyard; it is a well-drained site planted on a creek bed, initially planted in 1999. Because the fog can often remain until midday, the growing season is long and slow – allowing for nicely ripened fruit, with balanced sugars and acids allowing for complex flavor development. The vineyard is Certified Sustainable – CSWA – and grows cool climate Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. This is always one of our last vineyards to be picked.