Annahala (Hayley) Vineyard Pinot Noir

If you check out our website (http://www.calicaro.com/) you will see that we have two '08 Pinots listed for sale upon release this fall- one from Sonoma Coast and one from Santa Lucia Highlands.

While we haven't listed it on the website, we are also going to have a tiny bit (10 cases- 119 bottles) of Annahala (Hayley) Vineyard Pinot Noir as well. The Hayley Vineyard Pinot is '07 vintage (a stellar year in N Cali), is a single vineyard bottling from this first rate Anderson Valley vineyard located between Boonville and Philo. Hayley had 10 months in the barrel and now has had some bottle age as well before release. We are labelling the wine now and should have some ready to ship in a month or so.

We held this back because it was our first time at bat and wanted to see how it developed before offering any for sale. It has our name on it and we wanted to be absolutely sure it was done right. I am happy to report that I opened our first bottle in early March and it was tasting great.

Really fresh, pure and light on its feet, complex lifted aromatics, great concentrated red fruit flavor profile of raspberries, strawberries and cranberries. Lighter oak (33% new Francois Freres) than our other wines, nice acidity (will be excellent with food) and just a hint of effervescence. This Pinot tastes like a spring day. We opened it at a restaurant introduction and it was liked all around.

We're only going to sell a small amount as we want to hold some back for wine festival pouring, restaurant and distributor introductions, charity donations and for ourselves and very special friends!

If you want some too, shoot me an email info@calicaro.com or give me a call (864.483.9972) and we'll try to set some aside for you.

And if you're wondering why the parenthetical name- it is because Annahala is a registered trademark owned by Premier Pacific Vineyards- the vineyard owner. So we are calling our little block of this vineyard "Hayley", and that is the name that will appear on the label.

Cheers,
Dave