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Raen Winery Fort Ross Seaview Home Field Vineyard Pinot Noir 2015
United StatesThe Raen Fort Ross Seaview bottling is more about the California style although the alcohol is a sensible 13.0 percent and it remains the most ethereal. The Home Field Vineyard sits out on the Western Sonoma Coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean just north of Jenner at 1200 feet of elevation, escaping the fog most summer mornings. The fruit, all clone 777, is dark yet cool, with earthy barnyard notes dominating over plums and smoky dried herbs. In a warm year and the fourth of a drought, the Mondavis have done a masterful job of allowing this wine to really strut its stuff. Carlo and Dante Mondavi have deep roots in the wine business, influenced from a very young age by their father Tim Mondavi and their grandfather Robert Mondavi. Tim Mondavi was a pinot pioneer back in the 1970s and as good as some of those wines were, well to hack an old phrase, you ain’t seen nothing yet. My initial tasting of the Raen (Research Agricultural Enology Naturally) wines was so exciting at first I thought maybe these wines may have been from somewhere else. All three labels use the same techniques (The ferment is 75 percent whole cluster using native yeasts and the juice ages 10 months in neutral 60-gallon French oak before it's bottled without fining or filtration) to put the emphasis on place.Tasted: 25 August 2017Tasted by: Anthony GismondiPrices:Grape: Pinot NoirCSPC: 673673
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