Robert Sinskey Vin Gris of Pinot Noir 2019
A stunningly beautiful wine to the eye and even better to all the senses. Star jasmine, orange blossom, rose petal and fennel pollen lead a high-tone aromatic charge that is amazingly complex for such a young wine. Strawberry, fresh apricot, white peach, pink lady apple and blood orange come next in juicy waves of flavor that broaden across the mid-palate to create a feeling of richness that lends itself to all kinds of food pairing possibilities. A twist of orange and fresh lemon zest hit on a finish lengthened by its mineral texture, mouthwatering acidity and high fruit quality from grapes farmed exclusively for this beautiful pink wine.
RSV organically farms five vineyards in the Carneros region with a total of 32 different vineyard blocks for 32 different lots of Pinot Noir. Of those, five blocks are selected for the Vin Gris of Pinot Noir. RSV Winemaker, Jeff Virnig, has been crafting this beautiful Vin Gris of Pinot Noir for thirty years. He has had the luxury of time to refine the Vin Gris and has perfected techniques like picking each vineyard at different levels of ripeness for each site – at that razor’s edge of flavor and brightness – to assure the wine is balanced, complex and just plain delicious. The grapes are hand-harvested at night, delivered to the cellar door in the wee hours of the morning where they are delicately whole-cluster pressed and the pure juice is cold-fermented to preserve the layered fresh fruit, mineral and spice characteristics of the finished wine. Purely delicious!
