SAUVIGNON BLANC

Cohen Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc

Kylie's Cuvee, Sauvignon Blanc

CHARDONNAY

Dutton Palms Chardonnay

Kyndall's Reserve Chardonnay

PINOT NOIR

Karmen Isabella Pinot Noir

Jewell Block Pinot Noir

Manzana Pinot Noir

Dutton-Thomas Road Pinot Noir

SYRAH

Dutton Ranch Syrah

Cherry Ridge Syrah

Gail Ann’s Syrah

Warren's Reserve Syrah

Reserve Syrah

ZINFANDEL

Stoetz Lane Zinfandel

LATE HARVEST

Sweet Sisters Late Harvest

 


2006 MANZANA PINOT NOIR

The Wine
This wine has a brilliant garnet color, scented of dusty rose, pomegranate, soft cherry and a slight hint of tangerine. Blending flavors of ripe raspberry and cherry coat the palate with a soft and silky strawberry finish. The wine will enhance with cellaring and will pair nicely with duck and mushrooms.

The Vineyard
Dutton Ranch farms over eighty unique, separate vineyards located in the coolest areas of the Russian River Valley, primarily in the sub-appellation known as the Green Valley. We have selected our favorite vineyards from our family’s Dutton Ranch to craft wines reflecting our vision of a signature Russian River Valley Pinot Noir. The Manzana Vineyard is located next to our Dutton Palms Chardonnay Vineyard, located in the heart of the Green Valley. Manzana’s hillside vineyard is east facing, which is an optimal location for growing pinot noir. Planted to clone Dijon 828 in 2001, this vineyard produces wine of red fruits with a bold luscious mouth-feel. The vines planted in the Gold Ridge type soil historically produce wines of this consistent character.

The Winemaking
After de-stemming into small open top fermenters, the must is cold-soaked for 5 days to gently extract spice and fruit characters, while extenuating harsher tannins. We punch down by hand up to four times daily, according to the stage of the fermentation. Each vineyard or block is fermented separately enabling us to afford optimization of each vineyard according to its needs, and to provide us with the most flexibility for blending. After fermentation, the individual lots are pressed and racked into French oak to age. Our winemaker chooses the barrels to emphasize the fruit and vineyard characteristics of the wine. We carefully selected each barrel from the Manzana lot in the spring of 2006 and blended our selection to allow the wine to marry and settle before bottling. Six barrels of the Manzana Vineyard Pinot Noir were bottled in August 2006.

APPELLATION Russian River Valley, Green Valley
VINEYARDS Manzana
SOIL

Gold Ridge

CLONES

Dijon 828

WINEMAKING De-stemmed,
cold soaked,
open top fermentation,
manual punch down,
indigenous yeast fermentation,
100% indigenous malolactic fermentation
BARREL AGING Aged 10 months in French oak barrels.
50% new French
ALCOHOL 14.7%
TITRATABLE ACIDITY .595g/100ml.
pH 3.72
WINEMAKER Mat Gustafson
CASES PRODUCED 132 cases

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