Belle Glos Dairyman Pinot Noir

My goal with each of the Belle Glos single-vineyard pinot noirs is to express the uniqueness of each vineyard site and craft a genuine style of California pinot noir that is layered complex fruit-forward and rich. Our Dairyman vineyard in the Russian River Valley on the sonoma coast is the most recent addition to our Belle Glos trio of pinot noirs. We’ve found this vineyard to be well suited to producing a wine with our signature style. – JOSEPH WAGNER OWNER & WINEMAKER THE VINEYARD: Once a dairy farm and pastureland this vineyard has realized its greatest potential as a prime virgin Pinot Noir vineyard. It was first planted in 2000 to a mix of Dijon clones 116 667 and 777 all grafted on low-vigor rootstock 101-14. I have been working with this vineyard since 2003 and have always been impressed by the quality of the Pinot Noir it produces. Dairyman sits in the southern alluvial plains of the Russian River Valley near the ocean a region where cooling fog comes in through