Ancien - Mink Vineyard Pinot Noir 2021 (750ml) Chanti

Ancien - Mink Vineyard Pinot Noir 2021 (750ml) ChantiAncien Pinot Noir is 100% Pinot Noir. The Mink Vineyard is located next door to the winery, in the Coombsville Viticultural Area of Napa Valley. Open to the same morning fogs and afternoon breezes that cool Carneros to the west, Coombsville is consistently one of the coolest pockets in Napa. Mink sits inside a small bowl, allowing cooler air to settle during the evenings, and making Minks mesoclimate a couple degrees cooler, even, than the surrounding

Pairs well with sea food

This Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru "Cailleret" 2017 develops lovely aromas of vanilla and honeysuckle

the Grand Vin is tighter and straighter

luxurious and grand

Very intense aromatics ranging from violet fragrance to black ink to cherry to allspice

30% Grenache

although the wine

800+ cases declared

17% Petit Verdot

The wine has an excellent ageing potential and

uses other Bordeaux varietals to give roundness

and was succeeded by his son Joseph