Sensual Liquid from Anderson Valley
Navarro Vineyards
“Method of Ancienne”
1999 Anderson Valley Pinot Noir
Travel north up the California Coast, past Sonoma, up into Mendocino’s western regions and you bump right into Anderson Valley. O.K. you don’t bump into it, you are in it. I just had a friend come back from Navarro Vineyards in Anderson Valley and he brought me back my new favorite $20 Pinot Noir. He just threw it my way to get me off his back so I would stop asking questions about his visit and requesting to see pictures. (Living on the East Coast is sometimes tough on me.) Well it did the trick;
I took the bottle and ran home for my opener. Lucky me. I admit that I have been focusing on the Willamette Valley for Pinot’s in recent months, but this gift was a grand awakening to the wines of Navarro Vineyards. I had one of their whites a long time ago (I don’t remember much) but now find myself on their Pinot bandwagon.
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