2007 Auction Block Pinot Noir (Current Releases) -- Tandem Winery Shopping Cart -- Noir Pinot Block Auction 2007

<H1>2007 Auction Block Pinot Noir -- Tandem Winery Shopping Cart</H1> $60.00 <IMG SRC="https://store.nexternal.com/tandem/images/05Auction_Block_Bottle.jpg" ALIGN=right ALT="2007 Auction Block Pinot Noir" NAME="2007 Auction Block Pinot Noir" BORDER=0 HSPACE=10> Auction Block Pinot noir is a wine dedicated to the many charities Tandem has been supporting since we first started selling wine in late 2002. Comprised of the best barrels of our best vineyards, this wine is always meant to show how enduring yet generous and rich Pinot noir can be. This wine is built for the long haul. It will last the test of time as it is “auctioned off” to charitable collectors, yielding long-term results for both wine enthusiast and the organizations that help to fight diseases, support children and promote the arts and sciences of our world. Tasting Notes: Slightly darker than many of our other Pinots in current and past release. Red hue on the rim with a touch of lavender; pretty! Competitive cacophony of aromatics, with smoked game meats and forest floor vying with anise, star fruit, almost overripe guava and kiwi skins. Dark plum/dark fruits. Very complex nose that opens up with time in the glass, increasing the layers to even rose petal and rhubarb. Mouth is really fruit-forward, almost bursting with dark fruits and berries, as Martin van der Kamp might say, “Bursty” with flavor. The overall structure is not so much large as it is well-proportioned, well-balance, with just enough oak to frame the fruit. Late palate is soft, rich and pliable, with the earthiness returning to echo the long late finish. Makes you want to take another sip! Technical Data: <ul><li>Vineyards: Manchester Ridge Vineyard made its second appearance in the blend, adding its voice to our West County grapes’ hills and sun. Hawk’s Roost Ranch’s strong Mariafeld clone and Kent Ritchie’s ancient “unknown clone” Pinot are, as always, doing a bit of heavy lifting on the structure, with the “terroir tour” trio of Sonoma Mountain (van der Kamp, Silver Pines and Sangiacomo in descending order of altitude) lending their unique voices to the harmony.</li> <li>Harvest: This was almost a perfect year. Long hang-time, cool harvest, many opportunities!</li> <li>Fermentation: done completely spontaneous for both primary and malolactic fermentation, we almost always choose the wild side of wine microbiology. Extended cold-soak during pre-fermentation helped to encourage the cool-climate yeast living in these vineyards and our winery. Most of the wine pressed before dryness which allows for the primary fermentation to finish in barrel, giving greater complexity, subtlety and integration to the oak aromas and flavors in the wine.</li> <li>Barrel Aging: After pressing, most of the wines went directly to barrel without settling or racking. Barrels were almost all from Burgundy. Age of cooperage was predominantly once-used, with the barrels coming from the Chardonnay program, taking just a bit of topspin off of the oak. Total time in barrel was 11 months with bottling after directly racking off of the fermentation lees.</li> <li>Bottling: 939 cases of this gravity-racked wine were bottled in late August 2008.</li> <ul><li>pH: 3.48</li> <li>TA: 6.9 g/L</li> <li>14.6% alcohol</li> <li>Residual sugar: 0.11%</li> <li>Appellation: Sonoma Coast</li> </ul> </ul> <LI>SKU: T707PNAB 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/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