Montagu Pinot Noir Russian River Valley 2021
Wait. Hold up. NO WAY!
RUSSIAN RIVER PINOT NOIR! Not $75, not $60… UNDER $30!!! OVER 65% OFF!!! How?!?!
No matter. MONTAGU!!! Weston Edison, well-known for his Silver Ghost & Tempus Fugit wines, is the young entrepreneur behind Montagu. After some globe-hopping in Chile, South Africa, Bordeaux, Veneto, and more...he settled in the Napa Valley in 2012. He cut some razor-sharp teeth working under the legendary Russell Bevan (with too many 95-100 point scores to count), and Jason Moore of Modus Operandi (who nabbed some pretty awesome 97+ and 98 point scores himself recently). He’s paid his dues, shook all the right hands, and now…THIS!
There’s some world-class RRV pinot fruit here, folks. Up until just recently, Weston’s LONE source for RRV was the iconic Bacigalupi vineyard. If you have a memory like Rain Man, you know we offered up Montagu’s Charles Heintz pinot from just southwest on the Occidental Ridge. He also gets access to other legendary sites…Durell, Ritchie, Hyde…I mean, C’MON!!! We can neither confirm NOR deny the exact source of this fruit in RRV…but Bacigalupi and Ritchie are the only RRV vineyards listed on the Montagu website…so feel welcome to your own conclusions…
Anywho…the WINE! Utterly stupendous, jaw-dropping, it-could-only-be-Russian-River-Valley PINOT NOIR! Rich cherry cola, Christmas spice a-plenty, cranberry tea, sarsaparilla, MORE cherries – so luxurious, so decadently rich and pleasing…DANG! This is happy-making, sultry, and lush pinot perfection – fans of Kosta Browne, Dumol, Gary Farrell TAKE NOTE! And fly, just fly, to lock some of this down…STAT!!! OVER 65% OFF? Madness.
While it lasts, pinot people!
Descendants of automotive royalty with holdings across California’s finest, and complex, collectable juice…
Technical Details
Country: United StatesRegion: California
Appellation: Sonoma County
Blend: 100% Pinot Noir
Varietal: Pinot Noir
Winemaker: Weston Eidson
Aging/Cooperage: 100% French Oak (33% is new)
Alcohol: 14.50%
About The Producer
Montagu’s namesake is British automotive pioneer, Lord John Montagu of Beaulieu, the great grandfather of founder Weston Eidson. Lord Montagu was the first person to drive an automobile to Parliament and here’s a fun fact: Lord Montagu’s assistant was the model for the Rolls-Royce Hood ornament, Spirit of Ecstasy!
Since 2012, Eidson has been channeling his ancestor’s innovative and adventurous spirit through their wines, with holdings across Napa Valley and Sonoma, spanning across the Russian River Valley, Healdsburg, Carneros, and the Pacific Coast.
Montagu wines is focused on crafting limited production wines with minimal intervention in the winery. This philosophy yields stellar juice that expresses the world-class terroir it hails from. Learning from meteors Jason Moore and Russel Bevan, Eidson’s wines are richly layered, complex, and balanced.
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