$134.99 x 6
Bottles per case | 6 |
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Price range per bottle | $100.00 and over |
Unit | 750 |
Grape variety | Pinot Noir |
Vintage | 2020 |
Country | California |
Region | Central Coast |
Sub region | Santa Cruz Mountains |
Winery | |
Wine type | Red Table Wine |
Payment Type | phone |
Collection | Mount Eden & Domaine Eden |
Mount Eden’s vineyards in the Santa Cruz Mountains have a rich history: Martin Ray planted Pinot Noir at Mount Eden in 1945. The canes came from Paul Masson’s original vineyard near Mount Eden; because Masson was a good friend of the Louis Latour family of Burgundy, it is likely the selection came from one of Latour’s finest vineyards and was brought by Masson to California in the 1880’s. The faith Ray demonstrated in this difficult red wine variety, at a time when America had little appreciation of fine wine, was remarkable. Today, Pinot Noir vines occupy seven acres of the estate vineyard and typically yield a meager one to one-and-a-half tons per acre.
Pinot Noir is the first variety harvested at Mount Eden, kicking off the vintage season. Using natural yeasts, fermentation is conducted in small open-top fermentors and extends ten to 14 days, with the must punched down by hand. The new wine is immediately put into French Burgundy barrels (75% new and 25% one-year-old). It matures for 18 months before it is bottled unfined and unfiltered. Nothing is added, nothing is taken away.
Thanks to the vineyard soils, the Estate Pinot Noir’s elegant, transparent style is more Burgundian than Californian, emphasizing wild strawberry, earth, blueberry, and herbal qualities. Cellaring the wine from five to twelve years will pay off handsomely.
“Hearty and dark aromas of stewed berries and smoked spices show on the nose of this bottling. The palate is quite smoky, with barbecued meat and grilled-berry flavors, all bound together by ample tannins.”
91 points, Matt Kettmann, Wine Enthusiast, March 2024
“A nice old-school style, with generous chaparral and dried red and black tea notes leading the way, backed by light damson plum and blood orange fruit flavors. Expands steadily in the glass to reveal richer raspberry and mulberry fruit flavors, which have good zip through the structured finish.”
93 points, James Molesworth, Wine Spectator, November 2023
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