Scherrer Winery Russian River Valley Pinot Noir 2016 CRV the shell limestone that gives

the shell limestone that gives the wine its name and its chalky spine

nestled in the forests of Mt

with the complexity of a serious sparkling wine in an elegant

and that is exactly why it does

drawn by a terroir nobody was paying much attention to

Scherrer Winery Russian River Valley Pinot Noir 2016 CRV the shell limestone that givesFred 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