2009 Cabernet Sauvignon (Russian River Valley)
United States
Russian River Valley
Sonoma
Red
Cabernet Sauvignon
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Tom Dehlinger told me that he thinks that dry-farming is important if you're making wines to age. "It seems that too much irrigation, or rainfall for that matter, hurts the integrity of the fruit tannins and the wines' structure is compromised," he explained. That said, he admitted that 2009 was a year when irrigation would have come in handy. Yields for his pinot came in at under two tons per acre, he told me, "which explains their intensity and depth."