WINEMAKER’S NOTES:
The 2017 Kiff Vineyard Pinot Noir is a blend of 667 and pommard clones. Each contributes unique characteristics; 667 provides mid-palate volume and red fruit flavors, and pommard adds plum, mineral notes and structure. The resulting wine is ruby in color; It has rich mid-palate volume, velvety tannins, and a long, seamless finish with flavors of plum, ripe raspberry, and underlying hints of medjool dates and mulled spices. The fruit was harvested on October 12th and spent five days in a cold-soak to extract color. Fermentation was completed in small, one-ton bins and took 45 days to complete including several days of extended maceration to extract even more color and to allow the tannins to fully integrate. French oak barrels were used for aging, 20% of which were new. The blend was created in April 2019, after spending 17 months in barrel. Bottling was completed in October 2019; only 62 cases were produced. The 2017 Denison Cellars Kiff Vineyard Pinot Noir is unfined and unfiltered. To prevent any incidence of cork taint, is bottled under a twist-off closure.