Mount Eden, "Estate" Pinot Noir
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Mount Eden, "Estate" Pinot Noir - 2019

Item # 41573 750mL

Using natural yeasts, fermentation is conducted in small open-top fermentors, then new wine is immediately put into 75% new and 25% one-year-old French Burgundy barrels. It matures for eighteen months before being bottle unfined and unfiltered.
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Color
Red
Vintage
2019
Country
USA
Region
California
Sub-Region
Santa Cruz
Producer
Mount Eden
Grape Variety
Pinot Noir
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Staff Pick Notes

I’ve always liked Mount Eden for its thoroughly un-Californian style. What I mean by this is that I’ve never had a wine from them that was “chock full o’ oak,” over-extracted, or amped with alcohol. Which for a longtime were tell-tale characteristics of “premium” Californian wine. The aroma is earthy and subtle: think horseradish, cracked pepper, and sandalwood. If you close your eyes the aromas blend together to give the illusion of a spice garden. The palate is quite candid. A juicy texture and clear red fruit flavors (cherries, pomegranate). It finishes with earthy notes and some spice that you smelled in the beginning. Mount Eden is making wines reflective of themselves, not their neighbors.

- SD

Glossary

Pinot Noir

The Burgundy region of northeastern France is the historic home of the Pinot Noir grape, and is the source of the world’s greatest examples. Here one finds renditions of Pinot Noir that deliver power with finesse and grace, wines that have unimaginable depth of flavor, yet are perfectly balanced and ephemeral in the mouth - in short, wines that deliver all that Pinot Noir has to offer. Terroir, the concept that wines from a specific region have unique and identifiable traits, is intricately...

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California

California makes more wine than any other state in the United States. Not only does the state grow a variety of noble grape varieties like Pinot Noir, Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, there are also plantings of lesser-known varieties such as Nebbiolo, Roussanne and Mourvèdre to name just a few.

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