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Gros Ventre Cellars Gamay Noir 2020

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    2020

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    The 2020 Gamay Noir has excellent purity of fruit and fresh red fruit flavors. We use a combination of foot-treaded whole clusters and de-stemmed fruit that lends to the unique characteristics of Gamay noir at the front and center. Sweet red cherry, plum, cranberry, cedar and anise are beautifully intertwined.
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    Gros Ventre Cellars, California
    Founded in 2008, Gros Ventre Cellars has been over 20 years in the making. After college, Chris spent several years tasting and selling mostly European wines in shops and restaurants as a sommelier, which shaped his palate and led him towards wine production. Starting in 2003, he began working at several high profile wineries including Williams-Selyem, Marcassin, and Skinner Vineyards, one of the Sierra Foothills' most notable estates. Through his work at both Skinner and Gros Ventre, Chris was named one of the San Francisco Chronicle’s Winemakers to Watch by Jon Bonné. In the winery, minimal handling is the focus, with native fermentation, no extended maceration, no lees stirring, and no fining or filtration. Gros Ventre’s production centers around Pinot Noir grown in cool, coastal sites. Additional vineyards in the foothills are distinguished for their considerable elevation to ensure freshness. All of the sites employed are farmed by hands-on growers focused on sustainability. About the name? Its meaning is two-fold: In Jackson Hole, Chris and Sarah met near the Gros Ventre River. Gros Ventre is also French for "big belly", which is most appropriate as Sarah was pregnant with their first child during the inaugural vintage! Pronounced "Grow Vant."
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    Delightfully playful, but also capable of impressive gravitas, Gamay is responsible for juicy, berry-packed wines. From Beaujolais, Gamay generally has three classes: Beaujolais Nouveau, a decidedly young, fruit-driven wine, Beaujolais Villages and Cru Beaujolais. The Villages and Crus are highly ranked grape growing communes whose wines are capable of improving with age whereas Nouveau, released two months after harvest, is intended for immediate consumption. Somm Secret—The ten different Crus have their own distinct personalities—Fleurie is delicate and floral, Côte de Brouilly is concentrated and elegant and Morgon is structured and age-worthy.

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    As home to California’s highest altitude vineyards, El Dorado is also one of its oldest wine growing regions. When gold miners settled here in the late 1800s, many also planted vineyards and made wine to quench its local demand.

    By 1870, El Dorado County, as part of the greater Sierra Foothills growing area, was among the largest wine producers in the state, behind only Los Angeles and Sonoma counties. The local wine industry enjoyed great success until just after the turn of the century when fortune-seekers moved elsewhere and its population diminished. With Prohibition, winemaking and grape growing was totally abandoned. But some of these vines still exist today and are the treasure chest of the Sierra Foothills as we know them.

    El Dorado has a diverse terrain with elevations ranging from 1,200 to 3,500 feet, creating countless mesoclimates for its vineyards. This diversity allows success with a wide range of grapes including whites like Gewurztraminer and Sauvignon Blanc, as well as for reds, Grenache, Syrah, Tempranillo, Barbera and especially, Zinfandel.

    Soils tend to be fine-grained volcanic rock, shale and decomposed granite. Summer days are hot but nights are cool and the area typically gets ample precipitation in the form or rain or snow in the winter.

    EWLCAGRVGMN20_2020 Item# 825642

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