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Joseph Swan, Pinot Noir Great Oak Vineyard, 2018

Red Wine from California, United States
by Joseph Swan
$59.99
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Great Oak sits at elevation in the wooded hills above Forestville, staying clear of morning fog to ripen fully. Joseph Swan's 2018 is pure and complex: plums, red and black cherries, musky beetroot, fresh thyme, dark soil, coffee bean, and cedary oak. Bright, full-bodied, and transparent to terroir with fine-grained tannins and a long, composed finish.

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"The 2018 Pinot Noir Great Oak Vineyard boasts a ripe, sweet core of brambly red berries that is simple but charming. Juicy and graceful, the Great Oak is very easy to like." —Billy Norris

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More about Joseph Swan

There are fewer and fewer places that feel like old-school Sonoma these days, but Joseph Swan Vineyards is like a step back in time.

Joe Swan had no family wine background, and in fact made his first wine from rhubarb from his family's North Dakota farm, using his mother's washing machine and a crock. But he was a voracious reader and French wine lover who was enamored with the idea of a small winery that could be tended with care by one person from the vineyard to the cellar.

Joe founded what would become one of the great Russian River gems in 1968, and today, everything from the unassuming, garagiste tasting room to the elegant, silky wines is as genuine and honest as ever. Best of all, this house believes in keeping a deep library, so there are gorgeous and ready-to-go Swan wines to be found if you know where to look. (More than one somm has been tricked into putting these wines, tasted blind, in Burgundy.)

Wine Details

  • Grape Variety

    Pinot Noir

  • Vintage

    2018

  • Size

    750ml

  • Sweetness

    Dry

  • Body

    Medium Bodied

Flatiron's Take

From the Importer

What Skurnik Wines has to say about this wine:

100% Pinot Noir 

Great Oak Vineyard (Russian River Valley AVA)

Franciscan derived soils interspersed with fractured shale and sandstone

20% Whole Cluster inclusion, native yeast fermentation, thrice daily punchdowns, pressed off once dry and racked to barrel

Bottled unfined and unfiltered

197 Cases Produced

Tasting Notes & Food Pairings

Perfect Pairings

Roasted duck, beef ribeye, herb-roasted pork, wild mushroom pasta, smoked salmon

Tasting Profile

Plums, red and black cherry, beetroot, thyme, dark soil, coffee bean. Full body, fine-grained tannins, bright acidity, long complex finish.

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