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Cobb Pinot Noir Emmaline Ann Vineyard 2019, 0.75L

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Region: Sonoma Coast, California, United States
Varietal: Pinot Noir
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Importer: CA Winery Direct / Local Dist.
Score: 96WA
Review: “The 2019 Pinot Noir Emmaline Ann Vineyard was made with 50% whole clusters and matured for 22 months in 40% new French oak. It is delicate and broody on the nose at this stage, with a core of raspberry fruit and accents of saline, seaweed, cracked pepper and violet. The light-bodied palate is delicate, grainy and fresh, with layer after layer of detailed fruits and a latent finish that hints at more to come as this matures in bottle. Visiting Cobb wines in Occidental is a bit like stepping into a fairy tale: a series of isolated country roads culminates in a narrow avenue running through a stand of ancient redwood trees. Past this, the view opens up to sloping fields of vines and the Pacific Ocean. When I visited in the spring of 2022, it was so quiet that the pounding of the waves at Pt. Reyes was audible. We tasted the first couple of 2020s to be bottled: two Rieslings from Mendocino County. White grapes this vintage were rinsed and then pressed quickly without employing any skin contact due to the wildfires. ‘We didn't pick any reds—the smoke was so thick—but it was one of the best vintages ever,’ Ross lamented. ‘The damage from the smoke was done in August, way before picking. In 2008, the fire was further away from us. In 2020, the smoke was fresh, and it was right on top of us, right over the hill. There was a layer of ash on the car every day.’ Happily, the 2019s in bottle are just as spectacular as the view here, offering exceptional elegance, brightness and purity. They have the energy and concentration to age a decade or more in the cellar, without the weightiness and density some Sonoma Pinot Noirs, especially from recent drought vintages, can have. Impressively, the vines at Cobb have been dry-farmed for two decades. ‘My parents built this little house and dug a well in 1989,’ Ross recalled. ‘My dad practiced deficit irrigation and deep, sporadic irrigation, forcing the roots down. Now that the vines are 32 years old, they have been completely dry-farmed for 20 years. These vines haven't been fertilized or watered in all that time.’”

Staff Notes:
"The 2019 Pinot Noir Emmaline Ann Vineyard was made with 50% whole clusters and matured for 22 months in 40% new French oak. It is delicate and broody on the nose at this stage, with a core of raspberry fruit and accents of saline, seaweed, cracked pepper and violet. The light-bodied palate is delicate, grainy and fresh, with layer after layer of detailed fruits and a latent finish that hints at more to come as this matures in bottle." 96 Erin Brooks, Wine Advocate

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