California Pinot Noir's - Merry Edwards !

I paired a rack of Sonoma lamb with Merry Edwards' wines. The butterlike lamb danced a mouthwatering duet with the wine, a 1999 single-vineyard Klopp Ranch Pinot Noir. The incerdibly velvety dark fruit lingered enticingly on my tongue. This California Pinot Noir is a beautifully structured wine with a lot of power. Too often, new-world wines are showy and anxious to impress. But this one is a true virtuoso whose talents concentrated on context. So lets meet its maker; Merry Edwards first came to wine through food, having begun cooking with wine early on, thanks to one of her mother’s cookbooks from the California Wine Advisory Board. The interaction of different food substances fascinated her, and after she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in physiology from the University of California, Berkeley (where she brewed her own beer), she enrolled in the master’s program in food science at U.C. Davis, where she chose an emphasis on enology. In 1974 she joined Mount Eden Vineyards as winemaker. When, three years later, Edwards became winemaker at Matanzas Creek Winery, she traveled to the University of Beaune, where groundbreaking research was being conducted on clonal variations of Pinot Noir. Ultimately, her work with Pinot Noir would find its highest expression in Sonoma County, under the Merry Edwards label. Her releases testify to the fruit’s quality: They are voluptuous, silky wines with refined tannins. Her 2003 Russian River Valley Pinot Noir is a blend that exhibits berry fruit, along with dark plum, chocolate, and a peppery finish. The 2003 single-vineyard Meredith Estate is a sensual symphony of fragrant rose and boysenberry. The 2003 Klopp Ranch Pinot Noir is a rich blend of blackberry fruit and liquorlike cassis. Merry Edwards’ Klopp Ranch and Meredith Estate Pinot Noirs are true table wines and best enjoyed wih culinary counterparts.

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