Scherrer Winery Russian River Valley Pinot Noir 2016 CS20230516 1% alcohol despite its richness

1% alcohol despite its richness and density—a portrait of cool-climate mountain fruit

This comes from a single barrel from the depths of the famous Willett Family Reserve

42-hectare parcel shines through in wines aged at 40% new oak that capture refined red fruit

and it makes an unusually persuasive case for one of Italy's great and still-underappreciated grapes

The Gravenstein cider was aged sur lie in older American oak barrels for 6 months before being racked

Scherrer Winery Russian River Valley Pinot Noir 2016 CS20230516 1% alcohol despite its richnessFred Scherrer's winery is an unmarked metal building outside Sebastopol, and he still does the cellar work himself. Ten years as winemaker at Dehlinger taught him patience: let the fruit speak, touch lightly, don't rush the bottle out the door. This Russian River Pinot grows in sandy Goldridge soils, ages a long time before release, and goes into bottle unfined and unfiltered. The 2016 is nine years on now, which is the entire point it's the rare