Talley Rosemary's Vineyard Pinot Noir 2020
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Aromas of raspberry, lavender, blackberry, cedar, and vanilla bean. Flavors of boysenberry, black tea, Bing cherry, and bay leaf. On the finish, powerful elegance.
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Last (but not least) of the single vineyards, the 2020 Pinot Noir Rosemary's was all destemmed and brought up in 37% new barrels. Its translucent darker ruby color is followed by a rocking nose of black raspberries, toasted spices, dried flowers, and iron. Rich, medium to full-bodied, and concentrated on the palate, it has ripe tannins, a layered, multi-dimensional texture, and a great finish. It was my favorite in the lineup and is a straight-up gorgeous Pinot Noir readers will love.
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Rosemary’s, planted by Don Talley in 1987 and named for his wife, is always cooler and often more elegant than the pinot from Rincon. In this wine you can smell the sea air and feel the thickness of skins in its dusty, red-fruited scent. The oak flavors are pronounced, even as the palate is all bright red fruits, the acids penetrating and firm. For salmon.
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Talley Vineyards is a family owned and operated winery that specializes in estate grown Chardonnay and Pinot Noir ideally suited for the climate and soils of the Arroyo Grande and Edna Valleys. The Talley’s farming history in the area dates to 1948 when Oliver Talley began growing vegetables in the Arroyo Grande Valley. Guided by this legacy and a commitment to long term sustainability, Talley Vineyards focuses on attention to detail in all aspects of farming and winemaking operations. The goal is to produce distinctive wines of consistently high quality that best express the unique character of each of the Talley family’s six vineyard sites in the two valleys.
Talley Vineyards is located in the Arroyo Grande Valley, seven miles east of the Pacific Ocean in San Luis Obispo County on California's South Central Coast. We are approximately halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles and less than 10 minutes from Highway 101 in Arroyo Grande.
Thin-skinned, finicky and temperamental, Pinot Noir is also one of the most rewarding grapes to grow and remains a labor of love for some of the greatest vignerons in Burgundy. Fairly adaptable but highly reflective of the environment in which it is grown, Pinot Noir prefers a cool climate and requires low yields to achieve high quality. Outside of France, outstanding examples come from in Oregon, California and throughout specific locations in wine-producing world. Somm Secret—André Tchelistcheff, California’s most influential post-Prohibition winemaker decidedly stayed away from the grape, claiming “God made Cabernet. The Devil made Pinot Noir.”
One of the coolest growing areas in California, the Arroyo Grande Valley runs from the southwest to the northeast, just a few miles from the Pacific Ocean and is part of the Central Coast AVA. Situated so that cold Pacific Ocean air and fog is allowed to filter into the valley, Arroyo Grande also has an incredibly long growing season. Bud break occurs in February in most years with flowering in May and harvest in late September; the area is classified as cool Mediterranean.
These weather factors combined with the soil types—continental and marine rocks, greywacke, limestone, shale and volcanic—create wines with great concentration and fresh acidity. The cooler end of the valley is perfect for Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and is a good producer of sparkling wines. The warmer, more inland part of the valley is home to some of California’s oldest Zinfandel vines.