Scherrer Winery Russian River Valley Pinot Noir 2016 CS20230516 Brothers Andrea and Lorenzo now

Brothers Andrea and Lorenzo now run the estate

and it makes an unusually persuasive case for one of Italy's great and still-underappreciated grapes

ploughed with horses

1% alcohol despite its richness and density—a portrait of cool-climate mountain fruit

42-hectare parcel shines through in wines aged at 40% new oak that capture refined red fruit

Scherrer Winery Russian River Valley Pinot Noir 2016 CS20230516 Brothers Andrea and Lorenzo nowFred Scherrer's winery is an unmarked metal building outside Sebastopol, and he still does the cellar work himself. Ten years as winemaker at Dehlinger taught him patience: let the fruit speak, touch lightly, don't rush the bottle out the door. This Russian River Pinot grows in sandy Goldridge soils, ages a long time before release, and goes into bottle unfined and unfiltered. The 2016 is nine years on now, which is the entire point it's the rare