Wine Specs
Vintage
2017
Varietal
Pinot Noir
Alcohol %
13.6
2017 Renegade Ridge Vineyard Pinot Noir
Wine Profile
Tasting Notes
The
2017 offers a highly focused beam of
lemon zest and blood orange alongside
the more expected strawberry and
cherry notes. While refined, this wine
is also mysterious and chameleonlike
in the glass. The mouthfeel is
all-encompassing without being
overwhelming. As is typical of the
vintage, the 2017 is rich and ripe, with
a gracefulness brought on by longer
hangtime and acid retention in the
vineyard.
Vineyards
Renegade Ridge is a twelve-acre
vineyard contiguous to our Summit
Vineyard in the Dundee Hills. Soils are
basaltic Jory and the vines are planted
between 315 and 480 feet in elevation.
This vineyard presents our only
predominately east facing slope. Here,
Dijon clones are matched to select
rootstocks and exhibit pronounced
aromas, bright flavors, and elegant
texture.
Winemaking
Fruit for the 2017 Renegade Ridge
Estate was hand picked on October
2nd. The fruit was hand sorted and
fermented in stainless steel open
top fermentors. During primary
fermentation, tanks were pumped over
and poured over, and near the end
of fermentation, tanks were punched
down up to two times per day. After
non-inoculated fermentation, the wine
was sent via gravity to 40% new French
oak barrels and aged for 10 months
prior to bottling.