“Our rarest Clos Pepe Pinot bottling!” 

2008 PINOT NOIR CLOS PEPE

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This is our most intensely flavored pinot noir from the 2008 vintage. Tasting the wine now, two years after bottling, it has become a perfumed beauty with notes of caramel, damp earth, herbs and ripe sour cherries. The flavors have red plum, sandalwood and citrusy notes and the wine finishes fresh and lively. This is a rare wine that is both huge, mouth filling and yet exhibits a lovely elegance.

We harvested slightly more than two tons of fruit from our three acres of pinot noir at Clos Pepe Vineyard in 2008, a paltry yield, because a spring frost fried the tender shoots. The secondary buds then popped out, but they produced fewer clusters, and on those, there were many tiny shot berries (berries with no seeds), so the clusters weighed next to nothing.

The great dilemma in making this wine was choosing a picking date. If harvested too soon the larger berries would not be ripe, but picked a day too late all the shot berries would have turned into raisins. I felt we chose the right moment, though the fruit still required a particularly severe sorting at the winery. And even with our extra care with these grapes I didn’t have a clue how the wine would turn out, but as soon as fermentation was done and the wine was pressed to barrel it was apparent we had something special—what a delightful surprise! 

140 cases made.

To receive our best prices the order deadline is January 20th. We will ship the orders as we receive them.

A few press comments on this special wine:

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate (#196): "The 2008 Pinot Noir Clos Pepe comes across as quite deep and rich in style. Dark red cherries, black pepper, sweet herbs and spices are some of the notes that flow from this intense Pinot. The spring frost lowered yields dramatically at Clos Pepe to less than one ton per hectare."
( 91 Points )

Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar (Nov/Dec 2010):"Deep red. The densest and darkest in character of this set of pinots, offering ripe dark berry and cherry aromas and flavors and a hint of licorice. Becomes brighter with air, picking up peppery spice qualities and a touch of rose pastille. A bit of a tough read but there's clearly excellent material here. I'd come back to this one in a year or so."
( 91+? Points )

Burghound (#44):"A restrained, elegant and admirably pure nose features notes of violets and cassis that introduce very rich, generous and full-bodied flavors that possess a lush, even opulent mouth feel and a velvety, balanced and beautifully lingering finish. Lovely juice."
( 90 Points )


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