2016 CIRQ, Treehouse Pinot Noir, Sonoma County, California, USA

Colour Red

Sweetness Dry

Vintage 2016

Maturity Ready - at best

Grape List Pinot Noir

Body Medium Bodied

Producer CIRQ

Critics reviews

Antonio Galloni 93/100

The 2016 Pinot Noir Treehouse is forward, lush and inviting. Dark cherry, plum, spice and mocha infuse the succulent, racy wine, which conveys a lovely sense of immediacy. Floral notes add sweetness and perfume to the red-toned fruit in this silky, alluring Pinot from Michael Browne.antonio_galloni, Vinous.com (March 2019)

Antonio Galloni, Vinous.com (Mar 2019)

About this wine

Pinot Noir

Pinot Noir is probably the most frustrating, and at times infuriating, wine grape in the world. However when it is successful, it can produce some of the most sublime wines known to man. This thin-skinned grape which grows in small, tight bunches performs well on well-drained, deepish limestone based subsoils as are found on Burgundy's Côte d'Or. Pinot Noir is more susceptible than other varieties to over cropping - concentration and varietal character disappear rapidly if yields are excessive and yields as little as 25hl/ha are the norm for some climats of the Côte d`Or.

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