2022 Pinot Noir
A single-vineyard Santa Maria Pinot, held three years in bottle so it would be drinking perfectly the day you open it.
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- Vintage
- 2022
- Appellation / source
- Rancho Real
- Size
- 750 ml
- Alcohol
- 12.8%
- Vineyard
- Rancho Real Vineyard
- Ageing
- 12 months
- Barrels
- 6
- Availability
- Available
Composition: 100% Pinot Noir, Rancho Real Vineyard (Clones 828/115)
Nose (aromas): cinnamon, candied citrus peel, mature cherry
Flavor (palate): aged orange, dried cranberry, cedar
Winemaker’s Notes: We do not make much Pinot Noir, so when we do, we take our time. This one is from Rancho Real in the Santa Maria Valley, a cool, sandy, fog-blanketed site that gives Pinot a lighter frame and what I call Santa Maria spice, the baking-spice and citrus side of the grape rather than the high-toned red fruit you might find in the Sta. Rita Hills. 2022 was a warmer, faster vintage for us, and the wine came in bright and held its energy. It is light in body with soft tannin, and its length comes from acidity, not weight. We bottled it in August 2023 and held it three years, which let the fruit and acid relax into a more mature and balanced place. Pour it with seared salmon with fennel and orange, a wild mushroom and thyme tart, or Chinese barbecue pork from your favorite takeout spot.
Aging Potential: Now - 2029+
Additional Info: We make two Pinot Noirs, and they are built to be different. This one, from Santa Maria Valley, leans into spice, citrus, and earth. Our Venture Wayward Son, from the Sta. Rita Hills, runs toward brighter red fruit and dried herbs. Same grape, two Santa Barbara County appellations, two expressions. Serve slightly cool and give it a gentle 20-minute decant.
"We do not make a lot of Pinot Noir, so the ones we do make have to earn their place, and this one did. Rancho Real is one of those epic, Burgundian sites in Santa Maria, sandy soils, ocean wind, fog every morning, and 2022 came in bright and fast and held its acid all the way through. When we bottled it back in 2023 it was still wound up, so we sat on it for three years and let it relax. Now it has this mature red fruit and Santa Maria spice, and it is drinking exactly the way I hoped it would."
-BROOKE CARHARTT, CO-WINEMAKER
