Liquid Farm Sanford and Benedict Vineyard Pinot Noir 2018
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Jeb
Dunnuck
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Complex, elegant, and graceful. Expect this wine to only get better over the next decade!!
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Jeb Dunnuck
The 2018 Pinot Noir Sanford & Benedict Vineyard has a terrific core of pure raspberry and strawberry fruit as well as complex floral and sappy underbrush-like aromas and flavors. Elegant, medium-bodied, beautifully textured, and seamless, it's another wine from this estate that shows a more ethereal, elegant style yet still has beautiful intensity and length.
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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.”
A superior source of California Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, Sta. Rita Hills is the coolest, westernmost sub-region of the larger Santa Ynez Valley appellation within Santa Barbara County. This relatively new AVA is unquestionably one to keep an eye on.
The climate of Sta. Rita Hills is a natural match for Chardonnay and Pinot noir, thanks to the crisp ocean breezes and well-drained, limestone-rich calcareous soil. Here, grapes ripen just enough, while retaining brisk acidity and harmonious balance.