2019 POCO A POCO RUSSIAN RIVER VALLEY PINOT NOIR

2019 POCO A POCO RUSSIAN RIVER VALLEY PINOT NOIR, CALIFORNIA. 100% Pinot Noir This wine offers aromas of cherry preserves, rose petal and moist earth. The palate has a nice depth of fruit with delicate tannins that make it a nice medium bodied food friendly wine. The grapes are sourced from the Forchini Vineyard in the Russian River Valley. These are vines 10 to 30 years old farmed organically. About: Poco a Poco wines are made from organic and biodynamic grapes by Porter-Bass Winery. The Porter Bass Estate sits just up in the hills that overlook the small town of Guerneville, CA (below the fog line, 9 miles from the Pacific Ocean). The vines struggle to ripen each year, providing the perfect environment to make balanced expressions of Coastal Russian River Valley wines.

Growing grapes and making wine is poco a poco, little by little. When a block of vines takes an extra few years to grow up the stake, it’s poco a poco. When each cluster of grapes is sorted by hand, it’s poco a poco. When the wine in barrel takes a month or two longer to finish fermentation, it’s poco a poco. We live in a time when most things can be made, ordered, and consumed in a matter of days. The beauty of winegrowing is that we must live poco a poco.