Our Barrel Select Pinots are the best of the vintage. Richer, bolder, and even smoother than our Monopoles, these bottles feature our 2 older clones from the vineyard
This was the first Barrel Select made since 2009! Limited supply remaining
Violets and ripe berry fruit show on the nose, fading to hints of leather and cigar box aromas. A favorable growing season produced a rich bodied wine with balanced acidity. Bing cherry fruit is evident on entry to the palate mingling with cedar and hints of cardamom. Drinking beautifully on release, this wine will continue to evolve in the bottle for the next 15 years (until 2029 or beyond!)
Our 2015 vintage is our smallest harvest to date, but a special one. Darker in flavor and color than other vintages, it shows intense eartly notes with an aroma of autumn forest, hints of coffee, molasses with ripe berries mingling on the palate.
Barrel Select: The best barrels of the 2016 Harvest. Our Barrel Select Pinots are the best of the vintage. Richer, bolder, and even smoother than our Monopoles, these bottles feature our 2 older clones from the vineyard
The nose opens with aromas of the first ripe cherries of spring mingled with fresh rose petals. Hints of vanilla linger from our 100% Seguin Moreau French Oak barrels. Gentle cassis richness caresses the mid palate, with tea leaves, strawberry and cherry on the finish. 14.3% ABV
Our Commemorative 20th Vintage, “Deuxieme Decade-XX” bottling. Intense, earthy Pinot Noir that has seductive tones of cassis that balances the fruit and adds to its layered complexity. It tastes very similar to a Nuits-Saint-George in its most successful vintages.
The hue of the wine indicates the beautiful bouquet which will reflect a nose of wild berries and a tinge of cassis. The fruit will follow with Windward’s bright Bing cherry essence. A seductive “middle” to the wine tasting will introduce the long, complex “peacock tail” finish that is the signature of our mature Windward Vineyard.
Paso is on a vintage "Roll", the '17, '18 and now the '19 are outstanding vintages in our 21st century's 1st decade. The 19's hue is brilliant with a slight cast of ultra violet, promising a mystical wine awaiting your first taste. Both nose and wild berry fruit palate are consistent on entry of the "Noble Fruit" sliding gently into a velvety river that flows into our Windward Vineyard's signature peacock tail finish that seems endless. Only 1120 Cases Produced. 13.8% ABV
The 2020 Vintage is a near-perfect, 20/20. Clear vision of our 30 year-old vineyard's ability to achieve it's 1990 plantings' objective: To produce a great American Burgundian-style traditional pinot noir. With it's subtle whiffs of violet aroma and ripe berry fruit on entrance, it stands as an outstanding vintage; drinking beautifully on release with an honest propensity to age and gather layered complexity with sustained balance of fruit, acidity and long phenolic finish. I am proud to recommend our 2020 Windward Vineyard Monopole for your consumption now and many years of future tasting and food pairing experiences. 13.8% ABV
This was a survival 2021 vintage for the wines of California. years of extreme drought had triggered a cautious vineyard response by reducing the number of grape clusters of each vine in expectation of reduced nourishment due to the drought. Yields were greatly short of their usual volume so the wines produced were also more concentrated in aroma and fruit that is evident in Windward Vineyard's '21 our 30th vintage. An intense berry fruit is evident on entrance yielding to overtones of of soft minerality from the soil. It is lush, full-bodied for such a recent vintage. Defiant against the drought and so 'sacrément bon!'
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