| TASTE BENCHMARKS |
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Profile #1
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| Appearance |
Medium garnet. |
| Aroma |
Spicy strawberry fruit, combined with herbed tomato strongly laced with coriander. |
| Flavor |
A sweet core of fruit invites current drinking. |
| Balance |
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| PRODUCTION CORRELATIONS |
| Viticultural |
Capable of large scale, economical precision viticulture similar to the factory farms of the Monterey AVA, resulting in rich wines which are quite affordable. |
| Terroir |
Although this appellation has sunken river bed to its west which shelters vines from wind, this is reserved for red bordeaux style wines, and pinot noir is grown with the whites on the exposed alluvial fan to the east, owing their richness, ripeness and natural sweetness to its distance from the Pacific and its rocky subsoils. |