Winemaker Notes
Sourced from California’s cool, coastal growing regions, Avalon Pinot Noir showcases lush and silky cherry notes and ripe red fruit. Intriguing spice components give way to notes of sweet toasty oak with just a hint of smoke. Avalon Pinot Noir is extremely approachable and pairs perfectly with roasted chicken, grilled salmon and pizza.
Professional Ratings
-
Wine Enthusiast
This warm and broad-textured wine soothes the palate with soft tannins and ample ripe-plum and mulled-cherry flavors. It is full, mouthfilling and laced with subtle baking spices. Best Buy
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.