La Crema Monterey Pinot Noir

Winery Notes
Sourced from select vineyards in Monterey, California, La Crema’s Monterey Pinot Noir is an easy drinking and charming red wine with dark red fruit flavors and light touches of toasted oak. Crafted with boutique winemaking techniques and aged in oak barrels for a minimum of eight months, this medium-bodied red wine offers robust fruit flavors and subtle savory notes along with a supple mouthfeel. La Crema Monterey Pinot Noir is a silky, cool-climate Pinot Noir perfect for your next Wine Wednesday.

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Tasting Notes
The black plum, cherry and earth aromas open in this red wine to flavors of raspberry and mineral. Richly textured with juicy, balanced acidity and integrated toasted spice.

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Vintage Notes

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Vineyard Notes
La Crema began at a time in the 1970’s during which few wineries in California were making Pinot Noir, and even fewer were doing so with a single-vineyard focus. From the start, La Crema was inspired by Burgundian-style Chardonnay and Pinot Noir with a focus on small lot production that nurtured distinct flavors and balance of unique wine growing regions. Initially, La Crema focused efforts on developing wines from the Sonoma Coast, deemed the next great appellation for Pinot Noir, using artisan, boutique-style production techniques, like gentle handling, precision sorting, and crushing grapes in small batches. At La Crema, excellence in the bottle begins in the vineyard. The year 2019 marked La Crema’s 40th anniversary—fittingly its “ruby” year of eliciting the very best of the vine. This success is as much about the winery’s vision and commitment to quality winemaking which is rooted in the vineyards and soil. As La Crema looks to the future, it will continue to focus on cool-climate Burgundian-style wines and produce appellation-specific and single-vineyard bottlings from exceptional sites in California and Oregon.

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