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'09 Pinot Noir Justice Vineyard

This wine is bursting with fruit and spice: aromas of cinnamon, nutmeg, lemon zest, raspberries, apricot, and faint oak spice. The palate is lush with new strawberries and raspberries. Let this wine show off with Roast Quail in Pinot noir Sauce in our website recipe collection.

Harvest date: October 1 and 7, 2009
Grapes at harvest:
Brix: 23.9, pH: 3.26, TA: 7.1 gr/liter
Finished wine: Alcohol 13.8, %, pH: 3.47, TA: 5.7 gr/liter
Barrel aged 12 months in French oak, 43% new barrels, bottled in October 2010

The 2009 Vintage
Got off to a slow start, but a warm May and June gave us a very successful fruit set. Perhaps the vines were compensating for the poor flowering in 2008, but in any case 2009 delivered the largest potential crop of the decade. The summer was warm and sometimes hot, with a couple of extraordinary heat spikes, bringing on a relatively early harvest. September was sunny and warm, and continued dry in October but cool enough to extend hang time. The grapes were quite ripe, with great acidity and flavor development.