Anderson Valley Pinot Noir Recommendation?

GoldenEye is a nice Pinto from Mendicino. But hard to find in many areas of USA. Don't really know many of the Pinot from that area.

Goldeneye is made by the same people as Duckhorn.

I have spent considerable time in Anderson Valley and agree with your friends- Anderson Valley produces some "RAVE-WORTHY" Pinots...

In particular, I would put BREGGO Pinot Noir at the very top of your list. They have an Anderson Valley Pinot Noir that is offered as a future right now. I highly recommend it and bought some online here:

Enjoy!

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Thanks for the Rec's. I've been pretty pleased with most of the Duckhorn wines I've tried, so I'll check Goldeneye. WRT/ BREGGO-- I went to the site to check out the wine. It appears as though they have two single-vineyard bottlings (Ferrington, Savoy) in addition to the Anderson Valley PN. Have you tried the single-vineyards???

-BigCAW> I have spent considerable time in Anderson Valley and agree with your

BigCAWine-

Great find!

They must have just added the Ferrington and Savoy as futures. It is really tough to find those bottlings- but worth it if you do! I have really high expectations for the 2005 Ferrington AND Savoy.

I might go get some right now...

Thanks!

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I just returned from Napa/Sonoma/Mendoncino and I had some of the Pinot from Husch Vineyards - very tasty

Two of my favorites from there are Navarro's Ancienne PN (available only directly from winery) and Lazy Creek's PN. Of course, Roederer Estate's sparkling wine is also made (in part) from PN ;-)

Mark Lipton

Sorry to cause any commotion... I have actually been lurking the alt.food.wine board for a little while and just decided to post. There are so few decent chat boards out there discussing wine-- esp. CA wine.

Mark-- thanks for the Navarro & Lazy Creek recs. I've had some stuff from Navarro before, I don't believe it was the Ancienne (sp?) and it was nicely balanced, decent.

-BigCAWine

I like some of the Husch Pinots - and it's a great winery to visit

Anyway back to wine: Mark Lipton in news:Je6dnb3jLqbnZGnZnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@insightbb.com :

I second the suggestions of those wineries. Both do also other bottlings including Lazy Creek's casual Pinot "red table wine" in what has been called a European style. (More in past postings on this newsgroup.)

(That's not the half of it, but this may not be the place ...) Anyone passing nearby should visit Roederer Estate anyway (it sort of surrounds Lazy Creek geographically, BTW). RE has large facilities and a staffed tasting room with a range of bottlings including pink sparklers of high or complete Pinot content, apropos above. It's historically important to California wine because although not, by far, the first premium sparkling-wine producer, the firm's work since 1980 raised the standards of California sparkling wines by example. (Again, in a European direction.)

-- "Elegance, Balance, Finesse." -- M. Salgues