Scherrer Winery Russian River Valley Pinot Noir 2016 CS20230516 Brothers Andrea and Lorenzo now

Brothers Andrea and Lorenzo now run the estate

ploughed with horses

Wood-influenced notes of vanilla

The second fermentation happens in their cellar carved out of chalk right below one of their vineyards in Verzenay

Scherrer Winery Russian River Valley Pinot Noir 2016 CS20230516 Brothers Andrea and Lorenzo nowFred Scherrer's winery is an unmarked metal building outside Sebastopol, and he still does the cellar work himself. Ten years as winemaker at Dehlinger taught him patience: let the fruit speak, touch lightly, don't rush the bottle out the door. This Russian River Pinot grows in sandy Goldridge soils, ages a long time before release, and goes into bottle unfined and unfiltered. The 2016 is nine years on now, which is the entire point it's the rare