Trinity Oaks Pinot Noir 2011
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The Trinity Oaks winemaking team pays close attention to developing California's top vineyards with a focus on coastal climates proven to produce superior, expressive fruit. Each year, the finest fruit is selected from these growing regions to carefully craft the winery’s portfolio wines. The final achievement is a fruit-forward, food-friendly style consumers have come to expect and appreciate.
Trinity Oaks maintains an eco-friendly “One Bottle, One Tree” campaign in which it vows to plant one tree for every bottle that it sells. At last count, the number of trees planted to date totaled well over 17 million.
Trinity Oaks is part of Trinchero Family Estates and a consistent award winner in both national and international wine-tasting competitions. Its Pinot Grigio, Chardonnay, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Pinot Noir varietals have all won multiple awards.
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.