Hirsch Vineyards Reserve Pinot Noir

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David Hirsch dreamed for many years of making a Reserve Pinot Noir from his vineyards. Since the first Reserve in 2009, the winery has endeavoured to capture the most complete and powerful expression of the Hirsch Vineyards through selecting the finest and oldest vineyard blocks for this wine. 

Lying adjacent to the great San Andreas Fault on the extreme western Sonoma Coast, Hirsch Vineyards is a single vineyard comprising 67 distinct farming blocks. These blocks cover an area of 72 acres. Each block was individually planted based on its unique combination of soil, exposure and topography, and each is farmed, harvested and vinified separately. 

This process enables the winery to evaluate each farming block separately, and to select only the best barrels from the most expressive vineyard blocks for the Reserve Pinot Noir. 

On the nose, the 2021 Reserve is already showing a complex interplay of fruit and savoury aromatics. It opens with notes of fresh dark cherries and cassis, with hints of oyster shell and earth. On the palate, the attack is silky and sapid, with a seductive fullness. The tannins are fine-grained, long and impressive. This is a complex, structured wine that will benefit from time in the cellar.