Winemaker Notes
Color Medium ruby red with a raspberry hue. On the Nose Rose petals, inviting cherry pie, ground white pepper, muddled. strawberry and limestone. On the Palate Strawberry jam, graham cracker, red apple, blood orange, leather. with a floral note on the finish.
Professional Ratings
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Wine & Spirits
Dark and flavorful, this pinot noir leads with aromas of gingerbread and dark strawberry. Its flavors are savory black cherry framed with tobacco spice, with plush tannins firm enough for a lean steak. Best Buy
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2017 Tolosa Pinot Noir shows excellent richness and balance. TASTING NOTES: This wine exhibits charming red and black fruit aromas. Enjoy its elegant style with a rotisserie, garlic and rosemary-accented leg of lamb. (Tasted: February 11, 2020, San Francisco, CA)
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.