2002 Benziger Reserve Pinot Noir (750 ml) (Benziger Family Winery / Benziger Reserve Wines) -- Benziger & Imagery Online Store Shopping Cart -- ml) (750 Noir Pinot Reserve Benziger 2002

<H1>2002 Benziger Reserve Pinot Noir (750 ml) -- Benziger & Imagery Online Store Shopping Cart</H1> $40.00 -- This Reserve is an excellent version of what it can produce, a rich, fleshy wine, with intense fruitiness, and fine length. It is also very complex, tasting of caramel, toasted oak, baked cherry, plum, vanilla, and tobacco. Very long aftertaste. <IMG SRC="https://store.nexternal.com/benziger/images/NVRes%20PN.jpg" ALIGN=right ALT="2002 Benziger Reserve Pinot Noir (750 ml)" NAME="2002 Benziger Reserve Pinot Noir (750 ml)" BORDER=0 HSPACE=10> VINTAGE 2002 RELEASE DATE May 2005 AVAILABILITY Winery Direct Only 800.989.8890 APPELLATION Sonoma Coast VINIFICATION: Our Reserve Pinot Noir reveals the full expression of vintage and varietal. Crafted from select vineyard blocks, only the finest lots receive our Reserve designation. We target vineyard sites that cultivate rich and deeply flavored fruit. Once harvested, the fruit is gently pressed. Punch down and pump over routines are monitored and altered daily through the 8-17 day fermentation. The wine, still maintained in separate lots, is rushed to French oak shortly after pressing to finish secondary fermentation and stirred weekly to intermittently build middle mouth feel and velvety texture. After 17 months barrel aging the individual lots are blended then bottled. Alcohol: 14.5%, Total Acidity: .52, pH: 3.87, Residual Sugar: .07%. 388 cases produced. VINTAGE: Vintage 2002 started wet, even before the calendar said it was 2002 - we almost had our seasonal average of rain before the New Year – with January and February being unusually dry and typically cold. We had light rain at the end of March that slowed down budbreak but without causing any major problems. Unsettled weather through spring kept things interesting. More cool weather in May extended bloom, which could have caused uneven ripening. At the end of May we were about two weeks behind 2001. Veraison began in late July, later than average, but earlier than 1998 and 1999. Moving into the final stages of the growing season we were in pretty good shape considering that our summer had been fairly mild. 2002 was a vintage won in the vineyard, beginning shortly after budbreak with shoot thinning, and on through the season with crop thinning to balance the vines and eliminate any damaged or delayed fruit. This work by our growers allowed us to bring in ripe, uniform, high quality fruit with intense flavors and nice natural acid levels. <LI>SKU: 330102 Other products in the category <A HREF="http://www.nexternal.com/benziger/Category10" TITLE="Benziger Family Winery">Benziger Family Winery</A> / <A HREF="http://www.nexternal.com/benziger/Category6" TITLE="Benziger Reserve Wines">Benziger Reserve Wines</A>: <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/benziger/Product546 TITLE="2005 Benziger Reserve Merlot, Sonoma Valley (750ml)">2005 Benziger Reserve Merlot, Sonoma Valley (750ml)</A> -- Luscious in texture, with layered notes of black cherry, toasted oak, cassis and tobacco, the wine has long and persistent finish. . <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/benziger/Product894 TITLE="2006 Benziger Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon, Sonoma County (750ml)">2006 Benziger Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon, Sonoma County (750ml)</A> -- 2006 Benziger Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon <A HREF="http://www.nexternal.com/benziger" TITLE="Benziger & Imagery Online Store Products">Benziger & Imagery Online Store Products</A> <A HREF="http://www.benziger.com">Benziger & Imagery Online Store</A> Benziger & Imagery Online Store Online Store powered by Nexternal <A HREF="http://www.nexternal.com" TITLE="shopping cart software">shopping cart software</A>

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