Kenneth-Crawford 2007 Pinot Noir, Turner Vineyard
$40.00
2007 Pinot Noir “Turner Vineyard” Santa Rita Hills The Turner Vineyard shares the Northern fence-line of both Babcock Vineyards and Melville Vineyards along the 246 corridor of the Santa Rita Hills. This young vineyard shows great promise as it shares many of the same soil and terrain characteristics that have made its neighbors so successful. We take a one acre section of clone 115 that is on a South facing slope just below the main house. It produces beautiful little fist-sized clusters and the vines have, so far, been able to easily ripen the modest 1.5 to 2 ton per acre crop they produce.
Harvested by hand on October 9th 2007. Two thirds of the fruit was gently de-stemmed and one third was fermented with the stems. All of the fruit underwent a seven-day cold soak followed by an eight-day fermentation. This wine was racked once in April when SO2 was added for the first time. It was racked again only for bottling which took place the second week of September.
*This wine has a shimmering ruby hue. The aroma is laced with raspberries and rose petals but also has a decidedly earthy component that offers up mushrooms and forest floor. The tell tale Sta. Rita Hills spice is there on the palate along with more bright raspberry notes. The wine is of medium body and finishes long with a mixture of acid, tannin, toasty French oak and earthy spice.
40% new French oak 3.63 pH 14.9% alcohol 121 cases produced
