Center of Effort EFFORT Edna Valley Pinot Noir 2018
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Dense, deep purple-red, with powerful tones of ripe black plum and cherry. Savory on the palate with notes of cocoa, marjoram and thyme. Complex, rich, and long - this wine will evolve in your glass and can reward proper cellaring.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2018 Center of Effort Edna Valley Pinot Noir is outstanding from start to finish. TASTING NOTES: This wine shines with aromas and flavors of blackberries, licorice, celery leaves, dried herbs, and oaky notes. Serve this with a garlic and rosemary-infused roast leg of lamb. (Tasted: March 15, 2023, San Francisco, CA)
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Thin-skinned, finicky and temperamental, Pinot Noir is also one of the most rewarding grapes to grow and remains a labor of love for some of the greatest vignerons in Burgundy. Fairly adaptable but highly reflective of the environment in which it is grown, Pinot Noir prefers a cool climate and requires low yields to achieve high quality. Outside of France, outstanding examples come from in Oregon, California and throughout specific locations in wine-producing world. Somm Secret—André Tchelistcheff, California’s most influential post-Prohibition winemaker decidedly stayed away from the grape, claiming “God made Cabernet. The Devil made Pinot Noir.”
California’s coolest wine growing area, Edna Valley excels in the production of high quality Central Coast wines like Pinot noir, Chardonnay, Rhône Blends and aromatic white wines. It has a cool Mediterranean climate and an incredibly long growing season, giving late-ripening varieties plenty of opportunity to develop great phenolic complexity.
Its northwest to southeast orientation creates a direct path for cool Pacific air and fog to penetrate the valley from the Los Osos and Morro Bay area inwards. Low hillsides of both calcareous and volcanic soils are home to much of the vineyard acreage of the Edna Valley.