Siduri Santa Rita Hills Pinot Noir

Winery Notes
Siduri, named for the Babylonian goddess of wine, is the result of our founders, Adam Lee and Dianna Novy’s, mutual love of Pinot Noir, and their dream that they could make great wines of their own. They spent years working at small, family-owned wineries and using any and all free time learning everything they could about growing grapes and making wine. In 1994, they released the inaugural vintage of Siduri to critical acclaim. Today, Siduri’s breadth and depth of Pinot Noirs is truly unique. We specialize in cool-climate Pinot Noir, producing single-vineyard designate wines from over twenty exceptional vineyard sites stretching from California’s Santa Barbara County to the Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Our winemaking goal is to produce wine that best captures the distinct flavor and character of a given vineyard site. Whenever possible we let the wine make itself. We do not want to do anything to the wine that isn’t absolutely necessary. We believe in bottling our wines un-filtered and un-fined. In the vast majority of cases we have been able to achieve this, with only a handful being filtered, and none of the Pinot Noirs being fined. We avoid these techniques as we believe they have the potential to strip a wine of its flavor. We believe that the best Pinot Noirs express their origins. But perhaps most importantly, we believe that wine should be a pleasure, that serious wine and serious fun aren’t mutually exclusive. So in our drive to make great Pinot Noir, we ultimately hope for something relatively simple—good wine to be enjoyed with good friends, good family and good food.

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Tasting Notes
This red wine has aromas of plum, raspberry, cocoa and hints of eucalyptus. Dark and red fruit flavors compliment the juicy mid-palate. Acidity is woven with firm tannins leading to a long finish.

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Vintage Notes

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Vineyard Notes
The Sta. Rita Hills Pinot Noir was sourced from our most esteemed vineyards in the AVA – Clos Pepe, John Sebastiano and La Encantada. These vineyards blended seamlessly to offer a full spectrum of fruit flavors. The finely tannic structure of the red wine weaves the flavors together against a backdrop of fresh acidity. Several whole-cluster fermentations (25%) added a pleasant earthiness to the wine, lending lift to the aromatics and a pleasant grip on the finish. This red wine is sure to be a crowd pleaser and is a celebration of the beautiful vintage in the Sta. Rita Hills.

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Winemaking Notes