Chappellet Grower Collection Dutton Ranch Pinot Noir 2018

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Vintage
2018

Size
750ML

ABV
14.5%

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Winemaker Notes

This lush and expressive wine opens with aromas of black cherry, currant, anise, clove and toasty French oak. The cherry and currant notes are echoed on the mouth-filling palate, where silky tannin's provide polish and length to the flavors while carrying the wine to a long finish with hints of tarragon, thyme, espresso and dark chocolate.

Professional Ratings

  • 93
    COMMENTARY: The 2018 Chappellet Grower Collection Dutton Ranch Pinot Noir is alluring and beautiful. TASTING NOTES: This wine exhibits excellent aromas and flavors red fruits, black fruits, and dried earth. Pair it with a rosemary-infused, roast leg of lamb. (Tasted: April 23, 2020, San Francisco, CA)
  • 93
    Lively and savory in forest spice with an herbal undercurrent, this full- bodied red is luxuriously lengthy. Wildly intriguing in fruity components of currant and cherry, it fin- ishes in toasted oak and chocolate-covered espresso bean.
  • 91

    The 2018 Pinot Noir Dutton Ranch has a classic Russian River style in its mulled red and black fruits, cola, spice box, and violet-driven aromas and flavors. This carries to a medium-bodied, more structured wine that has ripe tannins, good mid-palate depth, and plenty of length. Rating: 91+

  • 90
    Crunchy red fruit and berry flavors are flanked by creamy savoriness. Mineral and Asian spice notes come in on the finish, with white pepper accents.

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For more than four decades, the Chappellet family has been crafting world-class wines from fruit cultivated on the steep, rocky slopes of Napa Valley's renowned Pritchard Hill. As one of the first wineries to pioneer high-elevation hillside planting, and one of the few remaining great family-owned Napa Valley wineries, Chappellet Vineyard and Winery has influenced generations of vintners. Throughout its history, Chappellet has also established an enduring legacy as one of California's most acclaimed producers of Cabernet Sauvignon.

The Chappellets' romance with Pritchard Hill began when Donn and Molly Chappellet first glimpsed the mountain's spectacular vistas in the late 1960s. Inspired by the notion that Bacchus loves the hills, Donn and Molly followed the advice of legendary winemaker André Tchelistcheff and settled on the rocky eastern slopes of the Napa Valley. There, on the mountain’s serene and picturesque hillsides, the Chappellets established their home and winery, raising their children and cultivating the vineyards.

Since being founded by Donn and Molly in 1967, Chappellet has earned acclaim championing the robust power and complexity of wines crafted from mountain grapes. At the same time, Chappellet has helped to establish Pritchard Hill as one of California’s most revered winegrowing sites. To honor the mountain's rich, expressive character, the winemaking team focuses on creating extraordinary, age-worthy Cabernet Sauvignons that embody the intensity and finesse of fruit from Pritchard Hill.

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While the Russian River Valley is a large appellation with multiple climate zones and soil types, it is best known for cool-climate varieties, with Pinot Noir as the most celebrated. The grapes benefit from a reliable late afternoon flow of Pacific Ocean fog through the Petaluma Gap and along the Russian River Valley that ensures slow and steady ripening and the preservation of grape acidity. Today many of California’s most highly regarded Pinot Noir vineyards are in the Russian River Valley, along with its sub-appellation, Green Valley.

Historically Russian River Valley Pinot Noirs had bright red fruit and delicate earthy, mineral notes. But changes in viticultural and winemaking practices have led to stylistic changes in some of the region’s wines. Adjustments to canopy management, among other techniques, have resulted in riper fruit and bolder wines as well. These show flavors of black cherry, blackberry, cola, spice and darker, loamy earth tones, accenting traditional Pinot Noir notes of strawberry, raspberry and light cherry.

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