Winemaker Notes
Blend: 100% Sauvignon Blanc
Professional Ratings
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Jeb Dunnuck
The 2019 Sauvignon Blanc Pine Mountain offers a similar style yet has more vibrant lime and minerality, medium-bodied richness, bright, crisp acidity, and a great finish. It's slightly more serious and age-worthy and is going to drink brilliantly for 4-5 years, if not longer.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2019 Sauvignon Blanc Pine Mountain, matured 10 months in older puncheons, stainless steel and amphorae, offers deep aromas of kiwi, beeswax and fresh herbs with an undercurrent of graphite. The medium-bodied palate is bursting with tricolor fruits—tropical, citrus, stone fruit—supported by a touch of texture and tangy acidity, finishing lifted and citrusy.
Capable of a vast array of styles, Sauvignon Blanc is a crisp, refreshing variety that equally reflects both terroir and varietal character. Though it can vary depending on where it is grown, a couple of commonalities always exist—namely, zesty acidity and intense aromatics. This variety is of French provenance. Somm Secret—Along with Cabernet Franc, Sauvignon Blanc is a proud parent of Cabernet Sauvignon. That green bell pepper aroma that all three varieties share is no coincidence—it comes from a high concentration of pyrazines (herbaceous aromatic compounds) inherent to each member of the family.
One of the highest growing appellations in California as well as the smallest, Pine Mountain incidentally extends into both Sonoma and Mendocino counties. Its vineyards range from 1,600 to about 3,000 feet in elevation at the top of Pine Mountain.