2020 GOWC Rogue Valley Agate Ridge Vyd Pinot Noir

14.0

This Pinot Noir displays a dark ruby color with brilliant clarity. Aromas of ripe berries
and dark cherries. Upon tasting, flavors of plum, goji berry and black cherry mingle
with hints of minerals. This dry wine shows lean texture and moderate tannin balanced
with bight acidity while finish lingers on notes of fruit and stone.

100% Agate Ridge Vineyard: 300 feet elevation, Southern exposure, planted 2002,
Farmed in an Organic manner. Rogue Valley AVA

The fruit was 100% destemmed to a single four ton open top fermenter. The wine was
pumped over daily during a four day cold soak and then inoculated from with an
indigenous yeast starter culture from our estate vineyard. The wine was fermented
for fourteen days and hand punched two times daily. The wine was aged ten months in
mixed French cooperage, which was an average of two years old before blending.

2020 began with a cool, wet spring. Budbreak was tracking in a normal pattern, while
rain during bloom caused yields to be lower than normal -focusing concentration of
berry and flavor development. A cooler than normal July and August helped the fruit
ripen steadily and we harvested this vineyard in early September. The 2020 wines are