Rickshaw Pinot Noir 2016
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
This wine is the real deal. The 2016 Rickshaw Pinot Noir shows that it is possible to find an excellent example of this grape variety at an affordable price. This wine offers beautiful flavor purity—red fruit, dried leaves, and wild herbs. Pair it with pan-seared wild salmon. (Tasted: January 19, 2018, San Francisco, CA)
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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.