Ampelos Rho Pinot Noir

”soil. Vines. Wines. This is the order in which great wine is made. Ampelos is the greek word for vine. The greek symbol rho: the correlation is used mathematically as a correlation coefficient. This wine is the correlation between the best barrels in our winery longer barrel aging and additional new oak. The relationship we cultivate with our land is paramount in producing hand crafted minimally invasive wines that both whisper and shout about the terroir from which they are grown. Our ampelos vineyard in sta. Rita hills is the first in the us to be certified sustainable organic and biodynamic. Our commitment to natural farming and winemaking is evident in every sip. Wine making style: after we harvested the fruit it stayed 24 hours in our cold room to avoid the use of dry ice. The fruit was gently destemmed and cold soaked for 3-5 days until the fermentation started. Based on the trials we had done since 2009 we decided this year for the first time not to add any y