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Willamette Valley’s “Record-Breaking” 2012 Vintage — Pinot Noir of the Year Since the late 1980s, Oregon’s winegrowers have insisted that only in Willamette Valley could the New World give birth to Pinot Noirs capable of rivaling the greats of Burgundy’s Côte de Nuits. On paper, there was plenty of merit in that assertion. Damp winters…
One of the Most Respected Estates in the Willamette Valley As soon as the 2012 Oregon Pinot Noirs hit the market, the top single-vineyard wines from the Willamette Valley’s most revered cellars were wildly over-solicited. If you weren’t already on the mailing lists of Bergström, Beaux Frères, Penner-Ash, and Cristom, you were out of luck….
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2012 Rockledge Pinot Noir Russian River Valley: “Where to put all the fruit???” A stone’s throw from the sleepy towns of Guerneville and Windsor and stands of towering redwoods, a lone deep-rooted Pinot Noir vineyard typically struggles to eke out 2 tons of small-berry clusters per acre. But in the extraordinary 2012 vintage, while quality…
2012 Terra Sancta Pinot Noir “Mysterious Diggings” … 92pts at the 45th Parallel They call it “Mysterious Diggings.” The setting is right out of “The Lord of the Rings.” The luscious wild-berry Pinot Noir seems more akin to Vosne-Romanée than Central Otago. Of all the under-$20 Pinot Noir discoveries of the last half-dozen years, this…
“Once Pinot Noir Gets its Hooks in You, It Doesn’t Let Go” After almost a decade at Saintsbury, where he fashioned some of the richest, most elegant Pinot Noirs on the coast, Bill Knuttel finally moved north to Dry Creek, where he focused his winemaking talents on warmer-climate varieties. But, as any passionate winemaker will…
The Heralded Fruit of Gap’s Crown We’ve long sung the praises of the cool and windy Petaluma Wind Gap. The daily dance of wind and fog allows sugars to develop more slowly than further inland, allowing growers to pick late without worrying about overripeness, high alcohols, or acidity. In the foothills of Sonoma Mountain, the…
Bryan Babcock’s $15/btl Sta. Rita Hills Pinot Noir?? If the name of your winery is Sea Smoke, Au Bon Climat, or Babcock and you make Pinot Noir in the Sta. Rita Hills, in nearly every vintage you’re challenged by daunting economics. Harvest often extends into late October, with yields rarely exceeding more than 2 tons…
Wine Advocate’s 94pt Bernardus Pisoni Vineyard Pinot Noir — DON’T Tell Your Friends! Robert Parker called Pisoni Vineyard “the grand cru of the Santa Lucia Highlands.” Since the early 1980s, some of the most lavish, flamboyant Pinot Noirs in California have been drawn from fruit harvested from this extraordinary vineyard, perched at 1300 feet in…
Rosella’s Vineyard – Santa Lucia Highlands ‘Grand Cru’ After honing his winemaking toolkit with stints at legendary Burgundy producers Leflaive, Lafon, and Morey, Dean De Korth returned home to Monterey County in the nineties with an enviable C.V. and the determination to make world-class wine on the Central Coast. Growers Gary Pisoni and Gary…
2013 Pinot Noir in Santa Lucia Highlands: Big, Bold, and Voluptuous In 1951, John Steinbeck described the Santa Lucia Highlands as “like heaven” in East of Eden. That same year, Eddie and Jane Pisoni began farming vegetables in the Salinas Valley. Their son Gary Pisoni graduated from college and immediately booked a one-way ticket to…
17 Vintages Later, A Late Master Sommelier’s Dream Lives On When Michael Bonaccorsi, the 20th American to earn the prestigious Master Sommelier title, died suddenly of a heart attack in early 2004, it sent shockwaves through L.A.’s tight-knit restaurant and wine community. The 43-year-old Bonaccorsi had risen to fame and a rare affection managing Wolfgang…
The Last Batch of a Master Winemaker’s Pinot Noir In 2013, two years before retiring from his post at Bouchaine, veteran winemaker Michael Richmond produced the best Pinot Noir of his career — a bottle that blended the firm acid structure of a Côtes de Nuits with sumptuous New World dark-berry fruit, black earth tones,…
2013 CHAD Russian River Pinot Noir … And a Dozen Buster Posey Rookie Cards We first met Chad in the summer of 2009 at a Napa Valley BBQ. The young winemaker had recently hatched an idea to help his winemaker buddies hold on to their jobs as Napa Valley was rattled by the Great Recession….
The Guru of Marin County and the Turley Alum Mark Pasternak owns and farms Devil’s Gulch Ranch in Marin County and, over the last 40 years, has become THE authority for Pinot just south of Sonoma. His client list is star-studded. In 1991, when George Lucas sought to plant vines on Skywalker Ranch, he called…
Roederer Enlists All-Stars for Latest New World Wonder Domaine Anderson ranks as one of Northern California’s most exciting debuts in the last five years. Behind the effort is legendary Champagne house Louis Roederer, which put down roots in Anderson Valley in the early 1980s with Roederer Estate, producer of some of the top sparkling wines…
A Burgundy Lover’s Smartest Buy We have long encouraged Burgundy lovers to buy smart by jumping on wines grown a stone’s throw from the $300 wines — or in the case of this 2013 Domaine Aurélien Verdet from Morey-St-Denis, the $500 wines. Compared to $70 elsewhere, which is great value in and of itself, at…
The Mentor’s Mentee at Per Se and DeNiro’s Tribeca Grill Henri Jayer’s wines are the most expensive and sought-after in the world. Not even the wines of the legendary Domaine de la Romanée-Conti are as prized. The minuscule amount that Monsieur Jayer would produce every year would have wine collectors around the world willing to part…
“California Pinot Noir at its finest…95 points” — Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate At the end of the 2013 growing season, the second consecutive drought year in Sta. Rita Hills, Bill Wathen and Dick Doré harvested a few dozen rows of Bien Nacido Vineyard’s Block 8 over the course of fifteen days. Set at the highest…
Too Much Demand, Not Enough Supply — Parker’s #1 Under-$50 American Pinot Noir of 2013 When we first knocked on cellar doors in the Côte de Nuits, it was 1978, and we were greeted with open arms. These were tough economic times, and even the likes of Roumier and D’Angerville were graciously receiving visitors. But,…
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