R. STUART & CO. AUTOGRAPH PINOT NOIR
Each year, Rob selects his absolute favorite lots of Pinot noir in the cellar and expertly blends them into the wine that is our crowning prize for that vintage – we call it Autograph. Comprised of many of the Pinots we bottle as single vineyard designates, Autograph brings them all together in what we like to call “the whole symphony”.
COLORS
ruby, clear
AROMAS
sage, cranberry, Calabrian chili
FLAVORS
macerated strawberry, vanilla, cherry wood
STRUCTURE
complex with seamless balance; the whole is greater than the sum of its parts
We destemmed this fruit into one-ton fermenters in Mid-October 2018. We then inoculated with our proprietary concoction of cultivated yeast and fermented the wine to approximately 5 brix. Then it was delestaged (a kind of rack and return that softens tannins) and eventually pressed to tank 7 days later. We let this settle for 4 days, inoculated for malolactic fermentation and then racked the wine into 5-year-old neutral French oak barrels. We made the final vineyard blend I3 months later.It was racked from barrels back to barrels three times before bottling.
TECH SPECS:
Alc: 13.8%, TA: 5.5 g/L
pH: 3.66, RS: <0.2 (dry)
COMPOSITION:
100% Pinot Noir
VINEYARDS:
58% Weber Vineyard, 10%r Hirschy Vineyard, 8% Dux Vineyard, 13% Daffodil Hill Vineyard (Clones 777/115), 11% Daffodil Hill Vineyard (Clones 667/114)
CASES PRODUCED:
210
AUTOGRAPH PINOT NOIR
$65/bottle
Wine Club members enjoy 15% to 20% Savings
AUTOGRAPH VINEYARD INFORMATION
APPELLATION
Willamette Valley
COMPOSITION
100% Pinot Noir
VINEYARDS
A blend from carefully selected vineyards throughout the
Willamette Valley AVA
Willamette Valley AVA
