Expresses all the aromas of our windswept, hillside site: dark berries and forest floor, clove and allspice. On the palate, the red and blue fruits of cherries, cranberries and dried currants are narrowed by the white pepper and cedar notes of the cooler 2011 vintage. Dense, long, lively; the 2011 Viandante Del Cielo offers great pleasure and perspective into the hillside winegrowing in one of the coolest sites in all of California. The Sommità Pinot Noir is selected as individual lots, (often by vine selections) that are produced from the Skywalker Vineyard high on a ridge in Marin County. These lots, no more than two tons in dimension, are harvested by hand, berry selected, and loaded by gravity into the fermenting tanks where they undergo a natural fermentation with wild yeast and a strict barrel protocol of no more than 20% new French oak. Left to the processes of the natural order, the Viandante Del Cielo Pinot is left alone for fourteen months before removal from its original barrel and bottled, unfined and unfiltered.