Pinot Noir

Varner 2013 Pinot Noir

Featured in our Pinot Noir Wine of the Month Club

Picnic Block: Santa Cruz Mountains AVA
93 Points — Antonio Galloni (formerly of Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate)
92 Points — Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate
92 Points — Antonio Galloni's Vinous

Appellation: Spring Ridge Vineyard, Santa Cruz Mountain AVA
Grapes: 100% Pinot Noir
Aged: 12 months in Oak
Cases Produced: 233

The Varner 2013 'Picnic Block' Spring Ridge Vineyard Pinot Noir is an elegant, vibrant wine from the Varners' home vineyard in the Santa Cruz Mountains. This is an especially big, ample, masculine-style Pinot Noir with notes of sweet dark cherry, dark spices, smoke, integrated oak, and forest floor and nicely structured tannins.

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