Winemaker Notes
Brilliant ruby red color. Aromas of cherry, dried rose petals with notes of nutmeg from the French oak barrel. Bright mouth, fine tannins, lively acidity and flavors of small red berries, Earl Grey tea, anise and forest floor.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
Dark plum and sagebrush aromas meet with toasted oak on the nose of this appellation cuvée. The palate picks up a touch of iodine and game to go with the herby plum flavors.
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Jeb Dunnuck
I loved the 2021 Pinot Noir Edna Valley. A beautiful example of the appellation, it has ripe cherry and mulberry fruits, some sappy flower, spice, and leather nuances, medium body, a ripe, round mouthfeel, and a great finish.
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Wine Spectator
Mulled raspberry and cherry notes are laced with subtle accents of red tea and incense through the lightly toasted, gently perfumed finish. Drink now through 2027. 372 cases made.
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.”
California’s coolest wine growing area, Edna Valley excels in the production of high quality Central Coast wines like Pinot noir, Chardonnay, Rhône Blends and aromatic white wines. It has a cool Mediterranean climate and an incredibly long growing season, giving late-ripening varieties plenty of opportunity to develop great phenolic complexity.
Its northwest to southeast orientation creates a direct path for cool Pacific air and fog to penetrate the valley from the Los Osos and Morro Bay area inwards. Low hillsides of both calcareous and volcanic soils are home to much of the vineyard acreage of the Edna Valley.