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	My Rating (circle) : Date Printed: 6/19/2013

Fetzer Reserve Pinot Noir 2201

Fetzer Reserve Pinot Noir 2201 (search item no. 80272) PRICE ON 6/19/2013: $26.99 ratings pedigree (past vintages): 1999 Wine Spectator rating: 87 points

Winemaker's Notes: The famed Bien Nacido Vineyard in Santa Barbara provides grapes for this classically-made Pinot Noir. A distinctive ripe cherry and oak-spice nose precedes ripe cherry and black pepper-spice flavors with a hint of vanilla from barrel aging in French oak. Herb-roasted poultry, grilled salmon or tuna, roast pork and game dishes are perfect matches with this lovely wine.

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About Fetzer Vineyards: Fetzer Vineyards, America's sixth largest premium wine producer, has been producing high quality varietal wines since 1968 in beautiful Mendocino County. In 1958, lumber merchant Barney Fetzer bought a ramshackle ranch in Redwood Valley as a home for his wife and a soon-to-be family of eleven children. Here, in the rugged hills of Mendocino, they toiled in their vineyards for a decade and turned their dream into reality with their first vintage in 1968. The family sold the business in 1992 to Brown-Forman Corporation.