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.
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