DeLoach O.F.S. Pinot Noir 2015
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This wine is a perfect accompaniment to cherry glazed ducke breast or herb roasted pork tenderloin.
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Brian Maloney selects this fruit from estate vineyards (40 percent), blended with grapes from BCD, close by, and the Starkey Vineyard in the Sebastopol Hills. This is Russian River pinot noir in all of its full-figured beauty, a rich, cherry-scented wine with enough intensity to take on a grilled burger with mushrooms. The alcohol isn’t shy, pointing up the grip of the tannins and the flower power of the fruit, but it’s all of a piece.
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Pale to medium ruby-purple colored, the 2015 Pinot Noir O.F.S. delivers notes of warm raspberries and kirsch with underlying hints of garrigue, dried herbs and fertile soil plus a waft of fungi. Medium to full-bodied, it offers tons of juicy red fruit with a chewy backbone and loads of freshness, finishing on a savory note.
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This wine is big, bulky and substantial in tannin, a mark of the vintage as well as the style. On the palate, a mix of dense black cherry, cola and dried herb mingle, with a lift of acidity on the finish.
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DeLoach Vineyards has been a pioneering producer of Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Zinfandel in Sonoma’s Russian River Valley since 1975. DeLoach seeks to produce exceptional wines that spotlight the singular personality of the Russian River Valley, with its rare and bountiful convergence of the sea, the soil and the stars. The Boisset family of Burgundy has stewarded winegrowing and winemaking at DeLoach since 2003, bringing the techniques and approaches of Burgundy to winemaking in the Russian River Valley, which they believed to be California’s most expressive terroir for cultivating Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. Under Boisset, DeLoach has grown its small-lot vineyard designate wine program, become a certified organic and Biodynamic estate vineyard, and implemented traditional Burgundian winemaking techniques such as open-top wood fermentors, native yeast fermentations, and hand punch-downs. Wine & Spirits magazine has named DeLoach Vineyards a Top 100 Winery twelve times.
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.