Product Description
Gold medal winner at the 11th Annual International Women’s Wine Competition
Best of show
Best of class
More muscular than the 2012, this wine shows beautiful display of currants, plum and black tea.
The heftiness of its youth has mellowed into an elegant and complex wine.
This wine is on the bigger side and therefore can handle more flavorful fish, like salmon, and can also accompany chicken and even meat dishes.
Clone: 115, Swan and 777 – Blocks 11, 21 and 15
Rootstock: 101-104
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 3.77
TA 5.0 g/L
Alcohol 14.3%
Harvested: 10/8/12 & 10/9/12
Bottled:
8/18/14
Produced: 200 cases
Released Spring 2017
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.