Presqu'ile Winery
Winemaker Dieter Cronje is making one of the most impressive sauvignon blancs in the Central Coast, a wine that channels some of the best examples from his native South Africa, with a good dose of California fruit power. The pinots here are strong as well, and should get even better as the Murphy family's new state-of-the-art gravity-fed, multilevel winery has just come on line. Making "powerful but elegant pinots" is the aim for all of the wines here, as is emphasizing "the spiciness and minerality of this area," Cronje told me. Even the Rim Rock pinot, from a site that also produces outstanding syrah, "makes pinot with finesse and complexity," he added. I had the chance to retaste the excellent 2010 and 2009 pinots I sampled last year and found them all still extremely youthful, with plenty of room to unwind. Patience, or at the very least a couple of hours of decanting, are in order for all of these wines, especially the 2009s, which are impressively linear and pure for that ripe vintage. The 2010 Estate bottling is the easiest to approach right now, followed by the "basic" Santa Maria Valley bottling, while the Rim Rock is the one most in need of cellaring. All the 2010 pinots were made entirely with whole clusters, by the way.
From Focus on California's Central Coast (Nov 2013) by Josh Raynolds
2011 Pinot Noir Santa Maria Valley
Release Price: $42
Color: Red
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2012 Sauvignon Blanc Santa Barbara County
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2011 Chardonnay Santa Maria Valley
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2009 Pinot Noir Rim Rock Vineyard San Luis Obispo County
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