Chateau St.Jean Sonoma County Pinot Noir rewards the palate!
Chateau St.Jean Sonoma County Pinot Noir
We enjoyed the Chateau St.Jean Sonoma County Pinot Noir 2009 with our mixed grilled and mushroom risotto. It’s lush flavours of cherry and plum with the hint of leather and notes of toasty oak and long lingering finish was a great match for our Chef’s Table a la Georgia’s backyard.
Grapes are sourced from the Russian River Valley and the Carneros district, two cooler wine growing areas ideal for Pinot Noir. At Chateau St. Jean the grapes, thin skinned and finicky, as Pinot Noir is known to be, are treated with kid gloves, handcrafted gently, cold soaked before fermentation for optimal colour and flavour, while during fermentation the skins are pushed back down manually into the fermenting juice.
On a Pinot Noir kick these days, Chateau St. Jean Sonoma County Pinot Noir 2009 is a homerun!
Margo Van Staaveren Winemaker and General Manager of Chateau St. Jean.
Margo Van Staaveren, is the winemaker at Chateau St. Jean, and the harvest of 2011 marked her 32nd harvest. She started out as a lab technician, then moved on to assistant winemaker, working with her husband as the head winemaker. After moving through the ranks, in 2003 Margo became the head winemaker. “Each vintage is a challenge, each wine is a challenge, I thoroughly love it!” This 2009 Pinot Noir is widely available in Canada including BC, AB, QC, NS and in Ontario for $29.95
Chateau St. Jean
Chateau St. Jean, one of the beautiful wineries in this glorious wine growing region.
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