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Handley Holmes Ranch Pinot Noir

Year

2006
Varietal

Pinot Noir
Style

Smooth
Origin

United States
Pairing

Vegetables
$40.00 per bottle
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Origin
In the past 10 years, Mendocino County’s Anderson Valley has emerged as one of the leading terroirs for California Pinot Noir. Farther north than Russian River Valley, but sharing a similar cooling coastal influence from the Pacific Ocean, Anderson Valley’s Pinot Noir vineyards have been planted with state-of-the-art clonal and rootstock selections, yielding intensely flavored Pinot Noir with great varietal character and complexity.
Pairings
Like most good Anderson Valley Pinot Noirs, this wine is remarkably versatile with food, and it has enough concentration to pair well with a main course of salmon, duck, pork or beef. Savory dishes that incorporate fruit or mushrooms tend to bring out the best in Pinot Noir.

Serve at cool room temperature (64°F).
Mushroom Burgers with Almonds and Spinach
Winemaker
Milla Handley has a long and pedigreed background in the California wine business. After earning her degree at the prestigious UC Davis oenology school in 1975, she worked for the winemaking legend Richard Arrowood at Chateau St. Jean in Sonoma. A few years later, she moved up to the remote Anderson Valley almost completely undeveloped for viticulture—to work under Jed Steele at Edmeades. Her first Handley Cellars wine was a Chardonnay she fermented in her basement in 1982. Since that time, her own operation has expanded and received acclaim, and she has worked tirelessly to promote the Mendocino region.
The Wine
Holmes Ranch, the current location of Handley Cellars, was originally a homestead inhabited in the early 1900s. Its vineyards are in the cool end of the valley, closer to the Pacific. It’s not often that we find Pinots that age as gracefully as this one: right now, this well-made 2006 Pinot Noir is drinking exceedingly well. It shows burnished, soft cherry fruit with savory wisps of cedar and camphor in the nose. The wine’s texture is silky smooth, carrying complex flavors of hibiscus, spice and tamarind.

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