Hirsch San Andreas Fault Pinot Noir 2020
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The 2020 Pinot Noir San Andreas Fault pours a rich ruby and offers aromas of black cherry, cardamom, forest earth, and violets. It’s full-bodied, with more black cherry and blackberry on the palate, as well as fine tannins, tangy acidity, and notes of fresh berries and turned earth. It’s clean and balanced and has a fairly long finish.
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The 2020 Pinot Noir San Andreas Fault comes across as quite soft in this vintage, but that’s not a bad thing. Crushed rocks, red-toned fruit, rose petal, iron, mint and dried herbs all run through this vibrant, chiseled, aromatic Pinot Noir. Like all the Pinots here, the 2020 is on the lighter side, but all the elements are well balanced.
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Perched on a ridge overlooking the Pacific Ocean at Fort Ross, Hirsch Vineyards is the birth ground of great pinot noir on the extreme Sonoma Coast. David Hirsch founded the vineyard in 1980 to grow fruit and make site-specific wine. From the start all efforts have been on the growing of fruit that makes wines profoundly characteristic of the site vintage after vintage.
In the wines of Hirsch Vineyards, you find a natural balance and consistency in the harmonious resolution of these opposites. This complex, unique site produces fruit and wines of unusual acidity and balance with a vintage specific concentration of pinot noir or chardonnay fruit. These are wines to be enjoyed now or laid down for future consumption.
The Sonoma Coast AVA is large in area but, not counting overlapping regions like Russian River Valley, only has a few thousand acres of grapevines—and it’s no wonder. Much of the region is rugged and not easily accessible. Its proximity to the Pacific Ocean’s fog and cool breezes limits the varieties that can be cultivated, but it proves to be an ideal environment for high quality Pinot Noir.
Since fog is a frequent fact of life here, as are heavy marine layers that sometimes bring rain, the best vineyards are wisely planted above the fog line, on picturesque ridges that capture enough sun to provide even ripening. That, with the overnight drop in temperature that reliably preserves acidity, results in fine expressions of Pinot Noir that often receive tremendous critic and consumer praise alike, and are often in high demand.