2021 Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir named #31 on Wine Spectator’s Top 100 Wines of 2024! Shop Now
2021 Gap’s Crown Vineyard Pinot Noir
97 points
Wine Enthusiast
An intense purple hue gives preview to blackberry cobbler and complex forest floor aromatics. Large scale and densely textured, this wine delivers a full and amazingly layered impression at first sip. Despite its size and vitality, it remains fresh, tangy, and energetic as it unfurls to a black-fruited core with excellent fruit density. Tannins have a muscular chewiness while still being lithe.Gap’s Crown Vineyard is a very long-lived wine that will reward patient cellaring for many years to come.
2021 will be remembered as a challenging year, with record low rainfall, but also as a remarkably fine vintage with many wines performing near their best in quality. The young 2021 wines are showing great promise as complex and concentrated wines, sure to give pleasurable drinking for years to come.
One of the Sonoma Coast’s great vineyards, Gap’s Crown was first planted to Pinot Noir and Chardonnay in 2002. Located high on a rock strewn, windswept hill directly overlooking the Petaluma Gap, the coastal mountain feature that feeds the cool Pacific air into the Russian River basin. Our section is planted exclusively to Dijon 667, in the sites most rocky and austere soils. Gap’s Crown is one of the last vineyards we harvest each vintage.
100% Burgundian French oak barrels (40% New, 60% 1 and 2 year old) All 3 year aged staves
Bottled without filtration to preserve the wine’s aromas and flavors and enhance aging potential
This wine is Vegan
Type:
Red
Varietal:
Pinot Noir
Region:
California
Appellation:
Sonoma Coast
Vintage:
2021
Blend:
100% Pinot Noir
Alcohol:
14.5%
Fermentation:
Multi-yeast fermentations (native yeast, followed by cultured yeast); 100% malo-lactic fermentation in barrel
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