Wine is really about farming. Yes, it’s been part of a meal for thousands of years, but at it’s core farming is everything. Well, not quite everything. Wine is/can also be about relationships, hence the name of this wine, which dates back 40 years ago when Gary Farrell and Joe Rochioli first agreed to use Rochioli fruit for Gary’s very first Pinot Noir in 1982. Gary’s winemaking style combined with Joe’s “meticulously farmed” grapes became an ideal partnership, now celebrated in this bottling. The wine offers up deep red raspberry, black cherry, raspberry and black cherry fruit notes, and rounds out with more subtle wild oregano, sage leaf, mushroom and nutmeg and lavender. There’s also a lithe smoothness to this wine, a delightful tactile experience, which doesn’t belie the acidity, but allows the mild oak tannins and acidity to enhance the wine, not detract from it. ORIGIN: Russian River Valley, Sonoma. ALCOHOL: 14.2%
