Winemaker Notes
Located on Mendocino's far coast, 3.3 miles from the ocean, Drew produces small lot cool climate wines from the Mendocino Ridge and the Anderson Valley AVAs. Traditional methods and sustainable farming practices are employed to craft wines with elegance and transparency.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
Great warmth and concentration make this full-bodied wine especially appealing. It fills the aromas with cinnamon, vanilla and red cherries, and follows with ripe but bright black cherry, black tea and rhubarb flavors that don't quit, but seem to swell and grow with each sip. Best through 2026.
Thin-skinned, finicky and temperamental, Pinot Noir is also one of the most rewarding grapes to grow and remains a labor of love for some of the greatest vignerons in Burgundy. Fairly adaptable but highly reflective of the environment in which it is grown, Pinot Noir prefers a cool climate and requires low yields to achieve high quality. Outside of France, outstanding examples come from in Oregon, California and throughout specific locations in wine-producing world. Somm Secret—André Tchelistcheff, California’s most influential post-Prohibition winemaker decidedly stayed away from the grape, claiming “God made Cabernet. The Devil made Pinot Noir.”
Essentially a northern extension of the Sonoma Coast AVA but part of Mendocino County, Mendocino Ridge is one of the rare appellations defined by elevation only. The Mendocino Ridge AVA is reserved only for vineyards at or above 1,200 feet between the Anderson Valley and Pacific Ocean.