Home / Red Wine / 2021 Cherry Pie Huckleberry Snodgrass Pinot Noir, Russian River Valley, 750ml
Silky smooth with flavors of boysenberry, plum and a touch of lavender.
Tasting Notes
Capturing the Russian River Valley’s racier side, this beautiful wine is red garnet in the glass with black cherry and crisp rhubarb with touches of cinnamon spice on the nose. The lovely palate has a gentle medium weight to it with silky smooth tannins filled with flavors of boysenberry, plum and a touch of lavender. On the finish, cherry juiciness is accompanied by clean, bracing acidity, with cranberry and rhubarb that lingers for ages.
Appellation: 100% Russian River Valley, Sonoma County
Cooperage: 100% French Oak, 30% New
Alcohol: 14.5%
The Vineyard
The Huckleberry Snodgrass Vineyard is located in the Russian River Valley AVA. Sun drenched days with foggy evenings make it a perfect vineyard to vinify opulent Pinot Noir. The soil composition is layered with Goldridge loam soil and sand, allowing for a perfectly drained vineyard. The roots reach for the water table and its nutrients, resulting in a more opulent wine with very lush tannins—a perfect combination for the Cherry Pie Pinot Noir winemaking approach.
Winemaking
The fruit was fermented in open top oak puncheons to allow more complexity and variety in the phenolic, aromatic and flavor components of the wine, producing a completely unique representation of the Pinot Noir grape. The wine was aged in French oak, a portion of which was the same puncheons the wine was fermented in that very year and rested ‘sur lie’ for the entire aging period.
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