Meridian Pinot Noir 2004

Pinot Noir
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    Vintage
    2004

    Size
    750ML

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    This soft, supple, velvety-textured wine has flavors of black cherry, sweet vanilla, and pepper. With its deep notes of ripe, summer plums and spicy oak finish, it's highly enjoyable with smoked chicken, grilled lamb, pork, cheeses, pastas or turkey.

    Pinot Noir from our Riverbench Vineyard in Santa Barbara County makes up two-thirds of this wine. The remaining third is evenly split between our White Hills Vineyard in Santa Barbara County, and the Paragon Vineyard in the Edna Valley. With their cool coastal climates and low yielding, restrictive soils, our Santa Barbara County vineyards produce distinctive Pinot Noirs with bold, concentrated flavors emphasizing fruit and spice. The Paragon Vineyard brings a velvety texture to the wine, as well as deep notes of ripe summer plums.

    As soon as we got the fruit to the winery, we destemmed the grapes and put them directly into our open-top fermentors for a five-day cold soak. Once fermentation began, the cap was gently submerged three times a day, to distribute the solids and create fuller flavors in the wine. It then went to barrels for eight months of aging. For Pinot Noir, I choose small French oak barrels from a variety of forests – primarily Bourgogne, Center of France and Never. These barrels have a tight grain, and impart only a touch of nutty flavor. The medium toast level I request gently suggests a light toasty component in the finished wine.

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    Established in 1988, the Meridian Vineyards winery is located halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco in the relaxed town of Paso Robles, California. The label was founded in 1984 by veteran Winemaker Chuck Ortman, who spent the early part of his career as winemaker and consultant to several prestigious Napa and Sonoma wineries. Although the first Meridian wines were made from Napa fruit, Ortman was always intrigued by the emerging Central Coast growing regions of Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties, where vineyards in cool climates were yielding Chardonnay and Pinot Noir of phenomenal quality. When the opportunity was presented to develop Meridian's Santa Barbara vineyards and relocate to the Central Coast, Ortman eagerly accepted the challenge. Today, Chuck is still making the wines from vineyards owned and farmed by Meridian Vineyards in the Santa Barbara County, Edna Valley and Paso Robles appellations.
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