Pinot Noir

	Varietals:	100% Pinot Noir
	Vineyard:	Sonoma Coastal
	Appellation:	Sonoma Coast
	Sub Appellation:	Sonoma Coast
	Fermentation:	Open Top
	Wood:	100% French Oak (1/3 New)
	Aging:	8 Months Oak Aging

WINEMAKER NOTES: This is the second Pinot Noir release by Mario Perelli-Minetti Winery. It is a flawless example of why Sonoma Coast is the perfect climate for Pinot Noir. Well structured with acid and tannins, this wine exhibits earthy tea tones and soft sweet leather spices, balanced with an abundance of dried strawberries and black cherries. Medium bodied mouth feel. This wine is dry and also made for food..
309 cases were produced

Sonoma Coast Appellation: The hottest new region in the county is, in fact, its coolest. What’s hot is the recognition that a place so close to the Pacific, with more than twice the annual rainfall of its inland neighbors, can still be warm enough to ripen wine grapes to their fullest flavor potential.
The answer, simply enough, is that these vineyards rise up above the fogline on slopes once given over to natural forestlands, punctuated by the occasional flock of sheep or herd of cows. On the coast, a thriving seafood industry provides the perfect accompaniment to the region’s vinous offerings. Chardonnay with the crab? Oysters? It’s so deliciously Sonoma County.

Though at 750 square miles it’s the county’s largest Viticultural Area, it is at present the least planted. But that is changing rapidly as consumers discover the depth of flavors that can be generated when varieties like Chardonnay and Pinot Noir are planted where the end of the growing season is coincident with their fullest flavor maturity. That’s how you come up with Chardonnays loaded with fresh dairy cream and toasted hazelnut character and Pinot Noirs sulky and silken with black cherry fruit and sandalwood spice.

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