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<H1>2005 Silver Pines Pinot noir -- Tandem Winery Shopping Cart</H1> $54.00 <IMG SRC="https://store.nexternal.com/tandem/images/05SilverPines.jpg" ALIGN=right ALT="2005 Silver Pines Pinot noir" NAME="2005 Silver Pines Pinot noir" BORDER=0 HSPACE=10> Delicacy and nuance marks the wine from this cool year. The cold air flowing from the Petaluma Gap and wrapping around Crane Canyon gave the 2005 a great presence of both the true terroir and vintage, yielding pretty red fruits and a floral undertone. Vintage matters in this site, with this expression creating a wine so different from 2004, yet so rich and supple as was true of the previous year. This is one of the great joys of winegrowing in such a site – finding the thread of similarity and celebrating the differences that each year can create. Thank you for exploring this vineyard with us! Vineyard: Located just a little lower and to the North of the Van der Kamp vineyard, Norm and Carol Silverman’s 10-acre vineyard has been producing award-winning Sauvignon Blanc and Syrah. In the past, their Pommard and Mariafeld clones of Pinot noir have been the backbone of our Auction Block Pinot, primarily because the four acres of concentrated Pinot have yielded so little, always less than ¾ ton per acre. 2005 was no exception, with the Mariafeld showing particularly loose, open and shy-bearing cluster architecture. Slight heat stress during late summer tended to increase a confectionary flavor to the berries as one tasted in the vineyard, a quality which happily was captured in the bottle. Tasting Notes: The cool 2005 vintage yielded a refined, nuanced wine to overlay the power and extract that this Sonoma Mountain vineyard has to offer. Great complexity and vintage presence provide the perfect expression of terroir in this bottling. Technical Data: <ul> <li>Harvest: As with the previous year, the two clones were brought in separately, about 3 weeks apart with Pommard brought in at the end of September. The Swiss UCD-23 (Mariafeld) hung until the berries had just a touch of dessication, at optimum maturity for this clone. Cold soak was conducted for approximately 4 days before a quick, warm, primary fermentation commenced.</li> <li>Fermentation: Both lots were done with wild fermentation, both primary and secondary. Pressing was conducted using a JLB basket press about 2 Brix before dryness, with both ferments finishing within 6 weeks of pressing off. All wines went to barrel without racking or clarification of any kind.</li> <li>Barrel Aging: As with the previous year, we went light on the oak, with about ¼ new French. Total time in barrel was 10 month in mostly twice- and thrice-used Seguin-Moreau and Latour barriques.</li> <li>Final bottling technical information of 227 cases of this second bottling of Silver Pines Pinot noir:</li> <ul><li>pH: 3.52</li> <li>TA: 6.4 g/L</li> <li>14.2% alcohol</li> <li>Residual sugar: 0.11% (very, very dry)</li> <li>Appellation: Sonoma Mountain</li> </ul> </ul> <LI>SKU: T705PNSP Other products in the category <A HREF="http://www.nexternal.com/tandem/Category1" TITLE="Current Releases">Current Releases</A>: <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/tandem/Product79 TITLE="2007 Ferrington Vineyard Gewurztraminer">2007 Ferrington Vineyard Gewurztraminer</A> <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/tandem/Product78 TITLE="2007 Manchester Ridge Vineyard Pinot noir">2007 Manchester Ridge Vineyard Pinot noir</A> <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/tandem/Product71 TITLE="2005 Porter-Bass Chardonnay">2005 Porter-Bass Chardonnay</A> <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/tandem/Product69 TITLE="2006 Lorenzo Chardonnay">2006 Lorenzo Chardonnay</A> <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/tandem/Product66 TITLE="2006 Manchester Ridge Chardonnay">2006 Manchester Ridge Chardonnay</A> <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/tandem/Product67 TITLE="2006 Sangiacomo Chardonnay">2006 Sangiacomo Chardonnay</A> <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/tandem/Product59 TITLE="2005 Kent Ritchie Chardonnay">2005 Kent Ritchie Chardonnay</A> <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/tandem/Product83 TITLE="2006 Kent Ritchie Chardonnay">2006 Kent Ritchie Chardonnay</A> -- SILVER MEDAL - 2009 San Francisco International Wine Competition <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/tandem/Product85 TITLE="2006 Porter-Bass Chardonnay">2006 Porter-Bass Chardonnay</A> -- NEW RELEASE! <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/tandem/Product42 TITLE="2004 Porter-Bass Chardonnay">2004 Porter-Bass Chardonnay</A> <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/tandem/Product47 TITLE="2005 Lorenzo Chardonnay">2005 Lorenzo Chardonnay</A> <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/tandem/Product73 TITLE="2005 Aldine Zinfandel">2005 Aldine Zinfandel</A> <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/tandem/Product74 TITLE="2006 Van der Kamp Pinot Noir">2006 Van der Kamp Pinot Noir</A> <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/tandem/Product77 TITLE="2007 Hawk’s Roost Ranch Pinot noir">2007 Hawk’s Roost Ranch Pinot noir</A> <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/tandem/Product76 TITLE="2007 Van der Kamp Pinot Meunier">2007 Van der Kamp Pinot Meunier</A> <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/tandem/Product68 TITLE="2006 Auction Block Pinot noir">2006 Auction Block Pinot noir</A> -- SILVER MEDAL - 2009 SF Int'l Wine Competition & 92 POINTS-Wine News <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/tandem/Product72 TITLE="2006 Sangiacomo Pinot Noir">2006 Sangiacomo Pinot Noir</A> -- GOLD MEDAL - 2009 SF Int'l Wine Competition & 93 POINTS-Wine News <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/tandem/Product70 TITLE="2006 Silver Pines Pinot Noir">2006 Silver Pines Pinot Noir</A> -- 93 POINTS - Wine News (August Edition 2009) <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/tandem/Product62 TITLE="2006 Van der Kamp Pinot Meunier">2006 Van der Kamp Pinot Meunier</A> <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/tandem/Product82 TITLE="2007 Auction Block Pinot Noir">2007 Auction Block Pinot Noir</A> <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/tandem/Product86 TITLE="2007 Van der Kamp Pinot Noir">2007 Van der Kamp Pinot Noir</A> -- NEW RELEASE! <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/tandem/Product75 TITLE="2006 Peloton Red Wine">2006 Peloton Red Wine</A> <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/tandem/Product40 TITLE="2004 Aldine Zinfandel">2004 Aldine Zinfandel</A> <A HREF="http://www.nexternal.com/tandem" TITLE="Tandem Winery Products">Tandem Winery Products</A> <A HREF="http://www.tandemwinery.com">Tandem Winery</A> Tandem Winery <A HREF="http://www.nexternal.com" TITLE="ecommerce software">ecommerce software</A> powered by Nexternal