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The medium ruby colored 2016 Pinot Noir Amber Block Starr Ridge Vineyard opens with scents of earth and tar that give...
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#81 ENTHUSIAST 100 2022. A note of green olive opens the door to a light-bodied, fresh experience of structure and...
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Beautiful layers of crisp, bright Asian pear and golden apple that lead to luscious notes of lemon curd.
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A wide range of aromas including lemon curd, honeydew melon, pear and spice. Medium-bodied, it begins minerally on...
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This is a complex and introverted vineyard-designate. Sour cherry, pomegranate and rhubarb surround a wildness of...
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The 2021 Russian River Valley Pinot Noir showcases the great balance that can be found in the vintage because early...
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This elegant wine unveils savory notes, fresh blueberries, and velvety tannins.
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The 2021 Chardonnay The Meadows is a powerful, dense wine that shows a distinctly more savory side of Russian River...
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The 2021 Pinot Noir Cuvée Alyce is another gorgeous wine in this range. It offers a compelling balance of fruit...
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The 2021 Pinot Noir The Estate Vineyards is gracious, elegant and silky. Crushed red/purplish berry fruit, spice and...
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The 2021 Pinot Noir The North Slope Vineyard pours a deep yet transparent magenta color and reveals lifted aromas of...
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The 2021 Pinot Noir The South Slope Vineyard is a classic Steven Hansel wine. A rush of dark cherry, plum lavender,...
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Packs aromatics that leap out of the glass, with flashy pineapple, mango and tangerine flavors that are bright and...
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Elegant and precise, with plenty of intensity to the fresh notes of lemon ice and Meyer lemon zest, revealing...
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Floral and fragrant up front, with orange blossom, lemon essential oil and honeysuckle accents to the core of elegant...
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Crisp and fresh, the Unoaked Chardonnay has a charm and elegance. Fermented in stainless steel tanks and aged on the...
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In this offering from the Bucher Vineyard, dark red raspberry fruit notes are intertwined with an earthy, loamy...
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With a red fruit profile, the 2021 Calegari Vineyard Pinot Noir showcases hints of raspberry, dried cranberry, and...
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A knockout nose of berry fruits and sassafras jump from the glass in this terrific offering from the eastern hills...
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This wine is terrifically complex with a layered nose of berry, tangerine, and spice box notes which jump from the...
United States California Sonoma Valley Russian River Valley
Of all the New World wine countries, perhaps the one which has demonstrated the most flair for producing high quality wines - using a combination of traditional and forward-thinking contemporary methods - has been the United States of America. For the past couple of centuries, the United States has set about transforming much of its suitable land into vast vineyards, capable of supporting a wide variety of world-class grape varietals which thrive on both the Atlantic and the Pacific coastlines. Of course, we immediately think of sun-drenched California in regards to American wines, with its enormous vineyards responsible for the New World's finest examples of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot based wines, but many other states have taken to viticulture in a big way, with impressive results. Oregon, Washington State and New York have all developed sophisticated and technologically advanced wine cultures of their own, and the output of U.S wineries is increasing each year as more and more people are converted to their produce.
California as a wine producing region has grown in size and importance considerably over the past couple of centuries, and today is the proud producer of more than ninety percent of the United States' wines. Indeed, if California was a country, it would be the fourth largest producer of wine in the world, with a vast range of vineyards covering almost half a million acres. The secret to California's success as a wine region has a lot to do with the high quality of its soils, and the fact that it has an extensive Pacific coastline which perfectly tempers the blazing sunshine it experiences all year round. The winds coming off the ocean cool the vines, and the natural valleys and mountainsides which make up most of the state's wine regions make for ideal areas in which to cultivate a variety of high quality grapes.
California's beautiful and remarkably fertile Sonoma Valley has grown over the decades to become one of the United States' most respected and profitable wine regions, with wineries within the region benefiting from the superb Californian sunshine, low rainfall and wonderfully rich soils. Because of this vital combination of excellent conditions, the region is able to grow a wide range of grape varietals for use in the production of an impressive array of wines, with many different red and white wine grapes flourishing each year and producing excellent and characterful results. The soils have been enriched by volcanic activity, and the presence of geothermal springs, which make this region a unique one, and very much the beating heart of California's ever growing wine industry.
Of all the wine producing regions in California, Sonoma County is one of the most highly regarded, having had a long and fruitful history which has helped shape the American wine industry. Within Sonoma County, we find the AVA of Russian River Valley, a beautiful viticultural area centred around the Russian river, and responsible for around one sixth of Sonoma’s high quality wine production. The vineyards of the region were first planted some two hundred years ago by immigrant communities coming over to California. At first, the vines planted here were generally for private consumption - a reminder of home gardens in Spain and Italy - but by the beginning of the twentieth century, business was booming with a couple of hundred wineries in operation, thanks to the unique nature of the terroir and the effectiveness with which the grapes were growing.
The Russian River Valley is renowned worldwide for the character and quality of its wines, which are the result of the region’s perfect, cool climate, which is affected by the Pacific fog which rolls in over the valley. This coolness tempers the strong sunshine of the area, and allows for a longer, slower ripening season - thus adding character and expression to the grape varietals which grow there. The main vines grown in Russian River Valley are cool climate grapes - Pinot Noir and Chardonnay - which make up for over forty percent of the grapes grown there. The hillier parts of Russian River Valley have had great success with Syrah and Zinfandel, and other parts of the region are experimenting successful with Bordeaux grapes, too.