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Wine Description
The Story
"The ultimate expression of terroir". Hand-selected fruit from the finest blocks within our vineyards and handled with the greatest care in our dedicated reserve fermentation cellar, these wines combine elegant complexity with density and structure, and demonstrate the "art" of winemaking.
Only the finest fruit harvested from our cool-climate Carneros vineyards is selected for this Reserve Pinot Noir. We work hand in hand with our growers ...
Vintage 1986
The 1986 California wine vintage—most notably across Napa Valley and Sonoma County—stands as a classic, high-caliber vintage that yielded deeply concentrated, ageworthy Cabernet Sauvignons and well-structured Chardonnays. Following a unusually wet winter and early spring that included historic flooding in February, the growing season stabilized into a warm, warm-to-hot summer marked by sporadic late-season heatwaves.
This heat accelerated ...
