1994 Dehlinger Pinot Noir Goldridge Vineyard, USA, California, Sonoma, Russian River Valley, Wine Review

The label proclaims the grapes were from 20 year old vines. What a treat to taste this at age 29. Drinking beautifully. Ruby color, clear and bright. Just the barest tinge or browning. The nose is great with cherries, slight rhubarb, slight cola, dust and spice. Medium bodied. This is mature but if it is past, it hides it very well. Impressive. The palate has cherries, rhubarb and an underlying earthiness. Complex. Nice finish. This seems like it would still have life left but given bottle variation with older wines, be prudent. Nice on its own or with food. This deserves a nice duck and/or mushroom dish.

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In California the best-known Pinot Noir producing area is, by far, Sonoma’s Russian River Valley. In Oregon it’s the Willamette Valley. The Willamette has just under 16,000 acres of Pinot Noir planted. The next most planted grape here? Pinot Gris, with less than 4,000 acres, so Pinot Noir is...

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California has actually been making outstanding wines from the Pinot Noir grape for a long time. Sure, not long in the Burgundian sense but going back at least to the middle of the last century there were good bottles of Pinot Noir being produced in California. Not many to be sure, but there were some. Starting slowly, in the 1990’s, and then exploding when the movie Sideways came out, there are now more and more offerings of good to excellent Pinot Noir being produced in California.

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2007 Dehlinger Pinot Noir Goldridge Vineyard, USA, California, Sonoma, Russian River Valley, Wine Review

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2007

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The label lists this as 33 year old vines. Great showing. Ruby in color, clear and bright. The nose is great with black cherries, slight cola, cherries, spice and slight earthiness. Wonderful round texture. Tannins resolved. On the palate, this seems to be at peak. Black cherries with slight cherries and a bit of spice. No signs of age but certainly mature. Drink over the next seven to ten years. Nice on its own, this would work well with roasted chicken.

Winemaker David Vergari Talks Pinot Noir, Cabernet Sauvignon, and....Armed Guards?

Sometimes there are people you encounter in life who, the minute you meet them, you think "This guy has a story to tell and I bet he tells it well." David Vergari is that guy. A veteran winemaker, David launched his own eponymous label, Vergari Wines , in 2003. He recently sat down with IntoWine to share with us his evolution as a winemaker and, most interestingly, the stories "behind the wine". You founded the Vergari Wine Company in 2003. What inspired you to strike out on your own? It happened in two ways: gradually, then quite suddenly.

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Sonoma's Must Try Pinot Noirs - 2015 Best of Sonoma

For the 2015 Best of Sonoma Lists we surveyed hundreds of local vintners asking for their inside perspective of the best wines, tasting rooms, and restaurants in Sonoma. Sonoma offers a wide range of pinot noir options—but some are simply too outstanding to miss. To help develop a list of the top of the top, we asked over a hundred of the top vintners in Sonoma for their own personal choice for the top Pinot Noir under $100 in the area, and the list is to die for.

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1994 Dehlinger Pinot Noir Goldridge Vineyard, USA, California, Sonoma, Russian River Valley, Wine Review

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