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2009 Pinot Noir Rice-Spivak Vineyard

Wine Details
Producer

Cobb

Place of Origin

United States

Sonoma Coast

Sonoma

Color

Red

Grape/Blend

Pinot Noir (2018 vintage)

Vintages
201820172016201520142013201220112009200820072006
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Ross Cobb's harvest regimen for pinot noir dictates harvesting "at low-ish Brix levels, around 23 degrees," and he looks for a pH in his wines somewhere around 3.3, vintage permitting. He emphasized that his personal aim is to make a wine that represents a particular vineyard in that particular vintage, noting that "dogmatic cellar technique can make place and season disappear pretty fast." Cobb lives full-time on the Sonoma Coast, which he said "is a great place to raise kids and vines and make wine, but you'd better be really into it because there's not much else to do."

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Ross Cobb spent time cutting his teeth at Ferrari-Carano, Williams Selyem and Flowers before taking the plunge and deciding to focus on making wine from his family's Coastlands Vineyard. The sweet spot for picking Pinot is around 22.5-23 Brix, which is on the lower end of the spectrum within the context of Sonoma Pinot. The wines are made with natural primary and secondary fermentations and racked once before being bottled, which is done without fining or filtration. Unfortunately I was only able to taste two wines from Cobb but this is definitely an estate on the rise, and one I look forward to following over the coming years and hopefully decades. The 2009s were bottled on June 30th, 2011.