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This year’s Santa Rita Hills Pinot Noir was exclusively produced from the Dijon 115 Pinot Noir clone from both Fe Ciega Vineyard and Foley Winery’s Rancho Santa Rosa Vineyard. This relatively new clone of Pinot Noir has the reputation for producing the best balanced wines among the several Dijon clones that have been widely planted in recent years.

Both wines were made separately following our traditional methods which include 100% destemming, fermentation in small open top tanks for an average duration of two weeks, pressing and settling for three to four days, followed by a transfer to French oak barrels. The lots were aged for ten months before being blended and prepared for bottling.

The wine displays a medium ruby color. Up front in the nose is a perfume-like character of spices such as bay leaf, white pepper and celery seed, that lead to the fruit aromas of dark cherries. On the palate, the wine has round, almost sweet flavors of cherries and spices. The texture, very soft for such a young wine, as well as a long and silky finish, makes it very drinkable now. However, it will become even smoother with another two to three years of bottle aging. Begin enjoying this wine during the upcoming Holiday meals.

Rick Longoria, Winemaker
October 1, 2006

Composition: 100% Pinot Noir
Vineyards: 81% Fe Ciega Vineyard Pinot Noir – Clone Dijon 115
19% Rancho Santa Rosa Pinot Noir – Clone Dijon 115

Production: 430 cases
pH: 3.57
Alcohol by volume: 13.7%
Titratible acidity: 0.59 g/100 ml.

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