2008 Exuberance Pinot Noir

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Wine Technical Data: 100% Estate Grown Certified Organic Vineyard 100% Dijon Clones 115, 667 & 777 Harvested on September 9, 2008 Sugar at Harvest: 25.2 Brix Aged 22 months in 100% French Oak 14.3% Alcohol TA: 0.60g/100ml 3.76 pH Bottled on July 27, 2010 180 Cases Produced Release Date: November 12, 2011 Gold Medals: 2011 SF Chronicle Wine Competition, 2011 SF International Wine Comp & Pinot Noir Shootout $50.

The Exuberance label is our reserve bottling that we will produce for only the finest vintages. Vintages that we believe will be one of the finest of the decade. It takes exceptional grapes to make award-winning wine. Our unique terroir, meticulous organic farming practices, and minimalist winemaking philosophy result in exceptional wines.

VINEYARD NOTES:  Planted in 1998, our 3.75-acre, organic Sonoma Coast vineyard, bordering on Los Carneros is comprised entirely of French Dijon Clones 115, 667 and 777. The vineyard experiences the full impact of San Francisco Bay’s cooling fog in the summer. Phil Coturri’s biodynamic vineyard management practices along with dry-farming and cane pruning result in small yields (less than 1.5 tons per acre) of the highest quality grapes. The vineyard is certified organic by CCOF.

TASTING NOTES:  Lush aromas of ripe strawberries, raspberries and perfumes of rose petals fold into pomegranate, vanilla, leather and caramel with an elegant, velvety mouth feel. Led in the nose by a wealth of bright, deeply drafted cherry-like fruit and highlighted by enticing perfumes of dried violets, this first-rate look at the grapes is at once both wonderfully rich and very light on it’s feet with exemplary balance and the velvety feel of outstanding Pinot Noir.

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