Scherrer Winery Sonoma County Pinot Noir 2012

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Scherrer Winery Sonoma County Pinot Noir 2012 Front Label
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Vintage
2012

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750ML

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This is Scherrer's first 2012 Pinot Noir release from what is becoming a (rightly so) highly regarded vintage. It has great intensity and everything is in the right proportions. While this bottling is normally not what the winemaker would consider to be a wine destined for really long term cellaring, this vintage is a rare exception. It has some of the beautiful perfumes of the 2011, the verve of the 2008 and some of the concentration of the 2010. It is focused around bright red fruits, fresh loam, rose petals, and snappy acidity leading to a mouth-watering, long finish. This is a wine that absolutely over-delivers on the expectations due to the label being ‘merely’ Sonoma County. Don’t be fooled by the understatement on the label. Coming from prime real estate in the heart of Russian River Valley this is a real over-achiever. It is a wine that should be put into blind tastings with ‘fancier’ wines to keep things honest.

Professional Ratings

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    A delicate, fleshy style that highlights fresh, juicy raspberry and wild berry flavors, with subtle anise and light earth shadings. Shows a loamy edge and a lingering watermelon and cherry aftertaste.

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Scherrer Winery, California
"I try to make good tasting wine that will age well. While everyone else seems to believe in doing minimal manipulation with the goal of letting the vineyard site speak, I find that since grapes do not walk off the vines and into the winery, let alone into barrels and bottles, we must actually do something with the grapes and wine along the way from time to time. Rest assured that I do try to get in the way as little as possible while trying to achieve the desired outcome. Most of our work is done and choices are made during the harvest season. Afterward, there is little reason to touch a wine that is on a wonderful trajectory. With the exception of our Dry Rose, all our wines are bottled without fining or filtration.

Sometimes we bottle wines from single vineyards, or even blocks within a vineyard. Usually, these vineyard designates are the synthesis of multiple sub-sites within a given vineyard. Sometimes we bottle ‘Appellation wines’ that are also single vineyard sourced but happen not to have unusually specific geographic personality beyond being delicious examples of their appellation. These Appellation wines are the result of blending carefully selected vineyard sites to achieve balance and harmony. Occasionally, such as with our Zinfandoodle, we blend between two vintages to achieve this balance and harmony. If any parcels are left over that are not assets to these wines, they find a home in someone else’s program, rather than ours.”

-Fred Scherrer

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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.”

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Home to a diverse array of smaller AVAs with varied microclimates and soil types, Sonoma County has something for every wine lover. Physically twice as large as Napa Valley, the region only produces about half the amount of wine but boasts both tremendous quality and variety. With its laid-back atmosphere and down-to-earth attitude, the wineries of Sonoma are appreciated by wine tourists for their friendliness and approachability. The entire county intends to become a 100% sustainable winegrowing region by 2019.

Sonoma County wines are produced with carefully selected grape varieties to reflect the best attributes of their sites—Dry Creek Valley’s consistent sunshine is ideal for Zinfandel, while the warm Alexander Valley is responsible for rich, voluptuous red wines like Cabernet Sauvignon. Chardonnay and Pinot Noir are important throughout the county, most notably in the cooler AVAs of Russian River, Sonoma Coast and Carneros. Sauvignon Blanc, Merlot and Syrah have also found a firm footing here.

EWLCASCRPNS12_2012 Item# 153794

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