2011 ビッグ・ベイスン ピノ・ノワール コーストビュー・ヴィンヤード
2011 ビッグ・ベイスン ピノ・ノワール コーストビュー・ヴィンヤード
| 2011 Big Basin Pinot Noir Coastview Vineyard |
The Gabilan Mountains are a sizable range of rugged granitic and calcareous mountains that run down the East side of the Salinas Valley, in Monterey County. Located six miles south of Calera's Mount Harlan AVA, the Coastview Vineyard is perched at 2,500 ft looking over the Salinas Valley, Santa Lucia Highlands and Monterey Bay. The owner, John Allen, is committed to farming organically and sustainably. Sheep graze the grasses of the vineyard, as Great Pyrenees guard them from Mountain Lions which regularly roam this remote location. We work closely with John so that the vines receive exactly the care and attention that we desire to authentically capture this truly world class vineyard site.
In 2008, I convinced Coastview's owner John Allen to bud-over some existing Syrah vines which were having trouble getting ripe at the base of a North-facing hill to Pinot Noir. We took cuttings of various Dijon-clones from the Alfaro Vineyard including 113, 114, 115, 667 and 777, plus some Pisoni selection and established them on a one+ acre block.
A hallmark of the 2011 vintage is the wonderful perfume that Pinot Noirs from cool sites express - and Coastview is no exception. The wine expresses the minerality of the decomposed quartzite/granite and limestone soils of the site on the nose, along with a perfume of blood orange, pomegranate, crushed flowers and hints of framboise and anise. Tightly wound now in its youth, it is a very well structured wine built for aging that benefits tremendously from a decant. As it opens up, it reveals a wonderful vibrant sappy red fruit that continues in a long cascading finish. This will no doubt be a long lived wine, and while approachable in it's youth, we expect it to take anywhere from five to ten years to truly reveal what it has to offer. We used about 35% stem inclusion with the remainder destemmed whole berry. We produced seven barrels and aged them for 16 months.
ワインインフォメーション
Harvested: October 2, 2011
Winemaking: whole berry, 35% stem inclusion, cold soak, hand punched, indigenous yeast
Barrel aged 16 months in French oak barrels
Bottled unfined and unfiltered February 2013
Alcohol 13%
163 cases produced
ロバート・パーカーのワイン・アドボケイト (Jeb Dunnuck) 92ポイント
Wine Advocate #208 Aug 2013 Jeb Dunnuck 92 Drink: 2013 - 2013
Elegant and silky, with ripe raspberries, rose petal, underbrush and plenty of spice styled aromas and flavors, the 2011 Pinot Noir Coastview Vineyard (harvested on October 2 and aged 19 months in French oak) is medium-bodied, fresh and pure, with a light, deft texture, juicy acidity and a pure, polished profile. Starting out slightly upfront and fruit-driven with air, it blossoms over the evening and has beautiful complexity and loads of class. Enjoy it over the coming decade. Drink now-2013.
Based out of the Santa Cruz Mountains, proprietor/owner Bradley Brown fashions a bevy of superb efforts from throughout the Central Coast.
| ワイン情報 | |
| 生産年(ヴィンテージ) | 2011 |
| 生産国 | アメリカ合衆国 |
| 生産領域 | カリフォルニア |
| アペレーション/地区 | サンタ・クルーズ・マウンテン |
| ボトルサイズ | 750ml |
| ワイン レビュー | |
| ワイン評価スコアの レンジ | 90 - 95 |
| ロバート・パーカーのワイン・アドヴォケート | 92 |
| アントニオ・ガッローニ/Vinous | 92 |
