WineSmith Saint Laurent and Pinot Noir 3-Pack

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WineSmith wines: A customer profile

Our research shows the typical WineSmith customer is sophisticated, intelligent, and leery of unsolicited flattery. Data indicate the customer enjoys food, including breaded products. A savvy shopper and adequate dancer, particularly at weddings. The customer is able to communicate with most rodents. Our data indicate the customer is indifferent to the word "stagecoach."

Favorite soup is chicken-based in 75 percent of respondents.

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Features

2 - 2013 WineSmith Saint Laurent, Ricci Vineyard, Carneros, Sonoma County

1 - 2007 WineSmith Pinot Noir, Russian River Valley, Sonoma County

2013 WineSmith Saint Laurent, Ricci Vineyard, Carneros, Sonoma County

St. Laurent comes from an experimental planting at Dale Ricci’s vineyard in Sonoma Carneros. This variety is popular in Austria, with 800 hectares plated, and is also the primary red wine produced in the Czech Republic. It’s a medium-bodied plummy wine with mouth-filling but very soft tannins like Gamay Noir, but fleshier and denser, with a slight herbal edge that reminds me of Carmenère. I ferment with some whole berries to relieve its slightly somber Eastern European nature.

I find this wine a tremendously versatile and satisfying food wine, great for roast chicken, charcuterie, cheese boards and other lighter fare. It’s an adventure, but also a real “comfort wine.

2007 WineSmith Pinot Noir, Russian River Valley, Sonoma County

The Lynmar Estate vineyard just north of Sebastopol is one of the most renowned Pinot Noir vineyards in the famed Russian River.

The 2007 harvest was extraordinary in this region. Fair weather at bloom gave us excellent set with high numbers of seeds per berry. A relatively cool summer extended the growing season so that ripening occurred in cool weather when flavors could develop gradually without excessive alcohol. Such wines can have unbelievable longevity potential which is seldom exploited.

My cellar hands counsel us to serve this wine whenever romance needs a boost.

Specs

2013 WineSmith Saint Laurent, Ricci Vineyard, Carneros, Sonoma County
100% varietal

Alcohol: 11.8%

Production: 67 cases

2007 WineSmith Pinot Noir, Russian River Valley, Sonoma County

Alcohol: 14.5%

Specs

2013 WineSmith Saint Laurent, Ricci Vineyard, Carneros, Sonoma County
100% varietal

Alcohol: 11.8%

Production: 67 cases

2007 WineSmith Pinot Noir, Russian River Valley, Sonoma County

Alcohol: 14.5%

Vendor Details

WineSmith Cellars

Founded:: 1993
Owner:: Clark Smith
Location:: Sebastopol

Clark Smith is an MIT drop-out who wandered out to California in 1972 and sold wine retail in the Bay Area for several years, where he acquired a love of Bordeaux, Burgundy and all things French and observed first hand the California winery explosion in the 1970s. After a three year stint at Veedercrest Vineyards, he secured enology training at UC Davis and spent the 1980s as founding winemaker for The R.H. Phillips Vineyard in Yolo County. In 1990, he founded WineSmith Consulting and patented a group of new winemaking techniques involving reverse osmosis, spinning off Vinovation, which went on to become the world’s largest wine production consulting firm over its 17-year history.

Frustrated with California’s winemaking trends, Clark started WineSmith Cellars in 1993 as a teaching winery to make Eurocentric wines to explore traditions beyond the mainstream, expanding for his winemaking clients the range of possibility for California fruit. Choosing to create long-term partnerships with committed growers rather than growing his own grapes, Clark has become an renowned expert on Cabernet Franc, having vinified twenty vintages from a wide variety of sites.

Teaching at Napa Valley College gave him access to the Student Vineyard for Faux Chablis and his Pauillac-style $100 “Crucible” Cabernet Sauvignon. From Renaissance Vineyards in North Yuba County he has made a sulfite-free Roman Syrah and also produces a Pinot Noir from Fiddlestix Vineyard in the Santa Rita Hills in a delicate, age-worthy Côtes de Beaune style. These wines are vinified in an ancient beat-up warehouse in Sebastopol, California.

WineSmith wines are noted for their longevity, classic balance, structural integrity, minerality and understated soulfulness. They often are aged extensively prior to release. When drinking a WineSmith wine, always ask yourself “What is this wine trying to teach me?” Clark is a vocal advocate of living soil and graceful longevity, and generally avoids excessive oak, alcohol, or extended hang-time. He is not shy about employing new tools when they are needed, such as alcohol adjustment to bring fruit into balance or micro-oxygenation to build refined structure, but always fully discloses techniques which are controversial and is outspoken in explaining his rationale.

His book, Postmodern Winemaking, is the culmination of four decades of reflection on wine’s true nature.

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