About the wine
Single-vineyard Pinot Noir of the highest caliber
Daryl Groom, your Angel-funded winemaker, says:
- "Driven by ripe red fruit, this wine has a lovely juiciness and is relatively light on its feet compared to my other Pinot Noirs."
- "It comes from a small 23 acre vineyard in the Russian River Valley, and there's a lot of competition to get this fruit – but I'm a good friend of the owner's from years back so I nabbed everything I could to make this luscious blend."
- "Hand-harvested from four different parts of the vineyard, fermented in small batches in state-of-the-art open-top fermenters, and aged in 100% French oak barrels... this is a top shelf treat for all of my Angels."
Best before
Best would be to drink in 6 months to 3 year window.
Serving advice
Serve at room temperature or just below. No need to decant.
Food match
Pork and hearty fish. I love also with cheese. Also goes well with an In N Out burger, friends and a game of cards.
Contains sulphites
Wine profile
Meet the winemaker - Daryl Groom
- Meet Daryl... a 35-year veteran of the wine biz, credited eight-times as Winemaker of the Year, named by Food & Wine Magazine as one of 11 visionaries to change the world of wine... and oh yes, he served up his wines at the Oscars and Emmys two years in a row! Safe to say, the man's accomplished.
- Working as the senior white and red winemaker at Penfolds, his 1986 Penfolds Grange was arguably one of the top 3 Granges ever made - 98 points from Spectator and Robert Parker. And now that he works for you, he loves showing off wines from Australia and his California home – Sonoma and Russian River Valley.
- Thanks to your funding, Daryl can focus on doing what he loves – making great wine and sharing great wine. And he selects the best barrels he needs and farms to the best quality. "You are a gift from God to a winemaker," he says. "I knew there were Angels in heaven!"
–– "Groom made Penfolds' flagship red, Grange Hermitage, which has become Australia's most collectible wine." --Wine Spectator, on the $500+ Grange
–– "Groom is my choice for Winemaker of the Year " -- LA Times, Dan Berger
–– "Daryl Groom. The human Tornado. " -- Bill Rice, Chicago Tribune
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