This wine has a medium-high density in both color and body. High tone red fruit aromas combined with more mellow notes of sage and black and red peppercorns create a unique wine profile.
Tasting Notes
This wine has a medium-high density in both color and body. High tone red fruit aromas combined with more mellow notes of sage and black and red peppercorns create a unique wine profile. This wine has great weight in the palate with black berry bramble flavors and a robust finish.
Wine Origin
2019 was a nearly ideal winegrowing season. There was just the right amount of heat early in the growing season to acclimate the grapes, and mild temperatures continued throughout the season ensuring superior flavor development. Day Ranch Vineyard is planted to Clone 667, and we harvested our fruit on September 20th, 2019.
Production Notes
The fruit was gently destemmed into small open-top fermenters, using state-of-the-art equipment and procedures to avoid any pumping of the must. Inoculation with select yeast strains followed a three-day cold soak, and the caps were managed with a combination of pump-overs and punch-downs. This wine was aged for 10 months in French oak barrels—43% new and 29% one-year-old—which enhanced the deep color and broadened the palate of this lovely wine. It was bottled September 11th, 2020.
Winemaker Notes
To make this wine, our love of exploration took us to another acclaimed coastal Northern California wine region, Mendocino County’s renowned Anderson Valley. Located just 15 miles from the Pacific Ocean, in the cool “Deep End” of the Anderson Valley, Day Ranch is planted on an alluvial terrace that abuts a mountainside. This wild, rustic terroir yields a complex and distinctive expression of Pinot Noir.
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