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2000 RUSSIAN RIVER VALLEY PINOT NOIR
2000 Russian River Pinot Noir

Bacigalupi:
  Harvest Date:   8/31/00
  Brix:   23.9 degrees
  pH:   3.39
  TA:   0.57 g/100mL
Dutton:
  Harvest Date:   9/18/00
  Brix:   23.5 degrees
  pH:   3.38
  TA:   0.78 g/100mL
Poplar/Ritchie:
  Harvest Date:   9/15/00
  Brix:   25.4 degrees
  pH:   3.42
  TA:   0.61 g/100mL

Tasting Notes: This wine is a lovely blend emphasizing the best characteristics of the above vineyards. The Baciglupi Vineyard offers very intense black fruits with an earthy, herbal undertone. Poplar/Ritchie is the veritable spice rack with loads of sandalwood, clove, cinnamon, nutmeg. Dutton Ranch pinot noir is flush with the red fruits; Queen Anne cherries, cranberry, gooseberry, and red currant. The wine from E Block completes this blend with aromatic and palate teasers of coffee, tobacco, and Marionberry. A touch of vanilla laced French oak rounds out this offering.

  Alcohol:   14.0% by volume
  TA:   0.58 g/100mL
  pH:   3.76
  Production:   810 cases of 12
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