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1996 Martinelli Vineyard Pinot Noir |
 Martinelli
Vineyard is a property well known for producing distinctive Pinot fruit
with rich flavors and plenty of concentration.
The grapes for our 1996 Martinelli
Pinot Noir were
hand picked, hand
sorted, destemmed
and crushed
into small,
open top
fermentors. During
fermentation, the cap of solids was submerged several times a
day to extract layers of
color and develop
complex flavors. The
wine was
transferred via
gravity flow
to a combination of
1, 2
and 3 year old French
oak barrels
from Claude
Gillet and
Louis Latour, where
it completed malolactic
fermentation and was
then left to age in our caves until August 1998 when it was bottled unfined and
unfiltered.
This wine reveals ample black cherry, chocolate and coffee flavors that permeate through to a long, intense finish. |