Description

The vineyards for this wine are all located in the heart of the Russian River Valley, approximately 15-18 miles from the Pacific Ocean. They represent a variety of soil types,
viticultural practices and clonal selections, but each carries the overiding characteristics of the best of the Russian River Valley. The blend varies from year to year. This year it
includes wine from our Trenton Estate Vineyard, Trenton View, Saralee’s, Catie’s Corner, Ritchie, Solas, and Great Oak.

This wine was produced from a multiplicity of clones of pinot noir. Each block of each vineyard was harvested and fermented separately. Fifteen to twenty percent of each lot was left as
whole clusters with the balance de-stemmed into open top fermenters. The cap was punched by
hand three times per day during the peak fermentation to extract colour and flavour and to control fermentation temperature.

After an average of 25 days on the skins, the wine was pressed off, settled briefly and then racked to French Burgundy barrels for 10 months of aging before selection, blending, and bottling. Each barrel of each lot was individually tasted, and numerous blending trials were conducted before the final blend was decided upon.

Only then did the wine receive its first racking as it was assembled for bottling, unfined and unfiltered. The production in 2014 was just over 2300 cases. 14.3%ABV