Sawyer Lindquist Vineyard Pinot Noir 2017
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This was a small, cool vintage until a wickedly hot spell hit on Labor Day weekend. Luckily the Pinot was picked before the heat wave and produced a lovely wine with focused pure fruit and finesse. This was bottled in March 2019 and will continue to evolve.
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Crisp raspberry and crumbled herb aromas meet with crushed rock on the nose of this single-vineyard expression from a rocky vineyard that was planted biodynamically. The tightly woven palate is extremely fresh, offering cranberry, pomegranate, peppercorn and light thyme flavors, with a pithy finish.
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Jeb Dunnuck
The 2017 Pinot Noir Sawyer Lindquist Vineyard comes all from the estate vineyard in the Edna Valley and was 75% destemmed and brought up in one-third new French oak. Burgundian notes of spiced cherries, forest floor, and dried flowers all emerge from this medium-bodied beauty, which has a beautifully balanced, elegant texture, moderate tannins, and outstanding length. It will evolve for a decade.
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Bob and Louisa Lindquist planted this vineyard in 2005, and though they sold it in 2013, they still purchase fruit from the property. Farmed under biodynamics from the start, in 2017 it grew a savory and exotic pinot, driven by scents of five-spice and pepper, a whiff of balsamic and plum compote. It’s texture has a whole-cluster feel, pleasingly grippy, with firm tannins that give the wine a cool reserve.
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Thin-skinned, finicky and temperamental, Pinot Noir is also one of the most rewarding grapes to grow and remains a labor of love for some of the greatest vignerons in Burgundy. Fairly adaptable but highly reflective of the environment in which it is grown, Pinot Noir prefers a cool climate and requires low yields to achieve high quality. Outside of France, outstanding examples come from in Oregon, California and throughout specific locations in wine-producing world. Somm Secret—André Tchelistcheff, California’s most influential post-Prohibition winemaker decidedly stayed away from the grape, claiming “God made Cabernet. The Devil made Pinot Noir.”
California’s coolest wine growing area, Edna Valley excels in the production of high quality Central Coast wines like Pinot noir, Chardonnay, Rhône Blends and aromatic white wines. It has a cool Mediterranean climate and an incredibly long growing season, giving late-ripening varieties plenty of opportunity to develop great phenolic complexity.
Its northwest to southeast orientation creates a direct path for cool Pacific air and fog to penetrate the valley from the Los Osos and Morro Bay area inwards. Low hillsides of both calcareous and volcanic soils are home to much of the vineyard acreage of the Edna Valley.