Foxen Sea Smoke Vineyard Pinot Noir 2007
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Beautifully crafted, with pure, rich, supple and layered dark berry fruit built around blueberry, blackberry and huckleberry flavors that hold their focus, ending with a delicate, detailed finish. Drink now through 2014
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The sensational 2007 Pinot Noir Sea Smoke Vineyard exhibits a creamy, concentrated, smoky, black currant, and black cherry-scented perfume with notions of earth and spice in the background. It is a meaty, rich, impressively concentrated, full-bodied, elegant, complex wine that only hints at its ultimate potential. A beauty, it is another excellent example of the potential that exists in the Santa Rita Hills. Anticipated maturity: 2010-2020.
Internationally recognized for gorgeous, pure fruit combined with great elegance, California Pinot noir thrives among the state’s cooler, coastal zones. Characterized by eclectic flavors and aromas of strawberry, black cherry, plum and potpourri with notes of forest floor, mushroom or black tea, the best California Pinot noir boast a supple texture and good acidity, giving them the ability to improve with age.
Credited with the beginning of Pinot noir’s glory in California, two growers, Joe Rochioli and Joseph Swan in the late 1960s independently planted Pinot noir vineyards in the Russian River Valley of Sonoma County. Today Sonoma County remains the leading producer of Pinot noir in the state, and Pinot noir is the leading red grape in the county, achieving its highest potential, in the Russian River Valley and Sonoma Coast.
Other coastal appellations where Pinot noir flourishes include Carneros, Anderson Valley and most of the Central Coast.