Williams Selyem Burt Williams Morning Dew Ranch Pinot Noir 2011
Pinot Noir
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Product Details
Varietal
Producer
Vintage
2011
Size
750ML
ABV
13.5%
Features
Collectible
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Our second vintage from this cooler site within the Anderson Valley, the wine exhibits notes of pie cherries, fennel, fresh cardamom and toasted vanilla beans. Vibrant strawberry flavors and supple tannins fill your mouth with a long, silky finish. Yields were quite low in 2011 and the wine exhibits true site expression with added finesse. The juicy acidity only adds to its age-ability.
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Perfumed and strikingly floral, this soft, seductive Pinot is light in color and body, with handsome layerings of strawberry fruit, Asian spice and suggestions of just-unearthed mushrooms or a newly minted Christmas wreath. On the finish, a touch of vanilla-tinged oak rounds things out.
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This is the second year that Williams Selyem has made a wine from the Anderson Valley wineyard planted by the winery's founder, Burt Williams. It's a surprisingly juicy pinot noir considering the North Coast's cool weather in 2011. That coolness comes through as a floral character, while the tannins remain supple and rounded; it's dangerously easy to drink with a roast chicken.
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Williams Selyem Winery began as a simple dream of two friends, Ed Selyem and Burt Williams, who pursued weekend winemaking as a hobby in 1979 in a garage in Forestville, California, and made their first commercial vintage in 1981. In less than two decades, Burt and Ed created a cult-status winery of international acclaim. Together they set a new standard for Pinot Noir winemaking in the United States, aligning Sonoma County's Russian River Valley in the firmament of the best winegrowing regions of the world. Today John and Kathe Dyson, who purchased the winery from Burt and Ed in 1998, carry on the passion for Pinot Noir winemaking without compromise. As for the wines... they just keep getting better and better.
DOB127146_2011 Item# 127146