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2017 Pinot Noir
Description
Winemaking Notes
The localrecord for precipitation was set during the winter and spring of 2016-2017 as waves of showers swept over northern California, resulting in twice what we normally get. Consequently, flowering and crop set was irregularwith lower yields than average. The summer was warm to hot, with sunny days in the Russian River Valley punctuated by heat spikes, and elevated nighttime temperatures leading up to harvest.
Winemaking is light handed with timely choices made to craft a wine that genuinely reflects the vineyard and vintage. We like our Pinot delicate and graceful, with all elements in balance, striving for complexity and above all deliciousness. All of the blocks at Janes Vineyard are picked in the early morning hours, de-stemmed to stainless steel tanks for cold soaking, followed by fermentation with native yeasts for extra complexity. The 2017 Janes Vineyard Clone 23 Pinot Noir was aged in 100% French oak barrels from the finest coopers, 17% of which were new, ending with Malolactic fermentation in the barrels finishing in early January.
History
Davis Bynum is distinguished as the first winery to produce a single vineyard Pinot Noir from the Russian River Valley. The vintage was 1973 and the grapes were from Joe Rochiolis now prized vineyard. Today, our heritage of winemaking lives on through hand-crafted single vineyard wines grown exclusively in the Russian River Valley.
The Vineyards
The vines at Jane's Vineyard generally show moderate vigor in their growth habit, mainly due to the acidic, nutrient poor soil and good drainage from the gravelly loam. The Huichica soil is shallow so we planted on that has a shallower rooting angle to match the soil profile. The Clone 23 block vine rows are oriented north-south, providing morning and late afternoon sun exposure to ripen the fruit.
