BloodRoot Sonoma County Pinot Noir 2022
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The 2022 vintage start with deeply pitched floral notes and follows with flavors of dark macerated blackberry, wild strawberry and warm spice characteristics. This is kept quite lively by accents of Northern California forest pine needles and focused acidity. The wine was bottled unfined and unfiltered.
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The 2022 Pinot Noir (Sonoma County) is terrific. It offers gorgeous depth and fine balance. Succulent red cherry, plum, spice, rose petal and cedar are nicely pushed forward. This shows a good combination of forward fruit with an extra kick of richness from the 25% new oak—pretty much unheard of for a wine at this level.
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BloodRoot is a secret collaboration between acclaimed winemakers. This group has deep cont acts and vineyard sourcing which they knew they would create great wines for relatively modest prices. This group is also masterful at creating blends. They're the chefs that could walk into your ho use tonight and make a Michelin-starred meal out of anything you have in your fridge and pantry. They want to be anonymous because they have other projects where their wines sell for 4-5X as much money with scores from critics in the 95-100 point range.
Thin-skinned, finicky and temperamental, Pinot Noir is also one of the most rewarding grapes to grow and remains a labor of love for some of the greatest vignerons in Burgundy. Fairly adaptable but highly reflective of the environment in which it is grown, Pinot Noir prefers a cool climate and requires low yields to achieve high quality. Outside of France, outstanding examples come from in Oregon, California and throughout specific locations in wine-producing world. Somm Secret—André Tchelistcheff, California’s most influential post-Prohibition winemaker decidedly stayed away from the grape, claiming “God made Cabernet. The Devil made Pinot Noir.”
Home to a diverse array of smaller AVAs with varied microclimates and soil types, Sonoma County has something for every wine lover. Physically twice as large as Napa Valley, the region only produces about half the amount of wine but boasts both tremendous quality and variety. With its laid-back atmosphere and down-to-earth attitude, the wineries of Sonoma are appreciated by wine tourists for their friendliness and approachability. The entire county intends to become a 100% sustainable winegrowing region by 2019.
Sonoma County wines are produced with carefully selected grape varieties to reflect the best attributes of their sites—Dry Creek Valley’s consistent sunshine is ideal for Zinfandel, while the warm Alexander Valley is responsible for rich, voluptuous red wines like Cabernet Sauvignon. Chardonnay and Pinot Noir are important throughout the county, most notably in the cooler AVAs of Russian River, Sonoma Coast and Carneros. Sauvignon Blanc, Merlot and Syrah have also found a firm footing here.