Description
This wine has a toasty vanilla character from French oak aging and a silky texture with rose petal and red cherry flavors. Our Pinot Noir is grown on the rolling hills of Russsian River Valley, where gravelly soils, warm afternoons and brisk nights combine to ideally ripen these delicate grapes. Rod Strong was among the first modern wine pioneers with a vision to plant pinot noir in the Russian River Valley. In 1968 he planted our heritage River East Vineyard in the alluvial clay-loam soils adjacent to the winery in Healdsburg. Today the Russian River Valley is well established as one of the premier pinot noir growing regions in the world, and we continue to rely on the original River East Vineyard as a core contributor to our estate vineyard bottling.
