Hirsch San Andreas Fault Pinot Noir (375ML half-bottle) 2016

Professional Ratings

• 93 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
  Medium ruby colored, the 2016 Pinot Noir San Andreas Fault is youthfully shy on the nose, giving up strawberry and raspberry preserves, bergamot, amaro, rose petals, charcuterie and pipe tobacco. The light to medium-bodied palate offers nuanced red fruits with firm, grainy tannins, finishing on a bitters note.
• 92 Wine & Spirits
  This is Anthony Filiberti’s first vintage at the Hirsch family’s vineyard in Fort Ross. It’s planted on a series of ridgetops three miles from the Pacific and 1,500 feet above it, those ridges formed by the San Andreas fault, resting under the land between the vines and the ocean. David Hirsch started planting the ridges in 1980, later converting the site to biodynamic farming. This blend includes fruit from the more exposed western ridges and the warmer, inland ridges to the east. W&S editor Patrick J. Comiskey described the wine as “classic Sonoma coast in its scent of laurel groves in the fog.” There’s a savory green character, the lovely spice driving floral black fruit through the earthy tannins. Those tannins will relax after a few years in the bottle.