Peake Ranch - Pinot Noir, Santa Rita Hills, California (2020)

TASTING NOTES

Crushed raspberry, mint, rose petal, cinnamon and blood orange. Gracious and light on its feet, with lovely palate presence and fine balance. Drink it over the next handful of years.

Located on the eastern end of the Sta. Rita Hills AVA on Santa Rosa Road, Peake Ranch is a 105-acre parcel with 50 acres of vines. 

The plantings include seven different clones of Pinot Noir, three clones of Chardonnay and two each of Syrah and Grenache. The plantings are all along a hill that covers most of the ranch, exposing the vines to the cool air that comes off the Pacific and into the Santa Ynez Valley.

The combination of North, South, East and West facing slopes coupled with the exposure to varying degrees of the cool wind give the vineyard a diversity of fruit profiles. Destemmed and aged in 100% French Oak (48% of it new).