This wine has deep floral aromas and flavors of cherry pie, raspberry and toasty oak. This well-balanced wine has soft acidity and an elegant mouth feel. It finishes long, smooth and fruity.

This grape is a relative of the very mutative Pinot Noir and it gets its name from the fine white hairs on the underside of the grape leaf which from a distance resembles baking flour, thus “The Miller” (Meunier in French.) The Pinot Meunier grape is native to Burgundy and Champagne where it is used as a valuable blending component of many champagnes, where it adds fruitiness and softness to these wines. In Mendocino County, we are able to produce a very elegant still wine that has deep aromas and flavors.

This wine comes from two vineyards. 75% Pinot Meunier from our Nube Bianco Vineyard located in the beautiful high elevation Potter Valley. This vineyard grows at the headwaters of, and next to the Russian River. With its high altitude, short season, rich soils, warm days and very cool nights Potter Valley produces grapes with low pH’s, high tartaric acids and an abundance of fruity aromas and flavors. 25% is Pinot Noir from the Naughty Boy Vineyard located in Potter Valley, which is grown next to the headwaters of the Russian River.

• Harvest Date: October 17th
• Fermentation: 3 days of cold soak, punched down twice a day for 14 days in stainless open top fermentors
  
• Aging: 20 months in French and Burgundy barrels (20% new)
• Blend: 75% Pinot Meunier, 25% Pinot Noir
• Alcohol: 14.3%
  
• Total Acidity: 6.3 g/L
  
• pH: 3.69
  
• Residual Sugar: 0.6 g/L