Highly Recommended, today’s 2009 Russian River Valley Pinot Noir, from our dear friends at *Deerfield Ranch Winery**, is a balanced California meets Burgundy delight!

Supple, layered, flavor-filled and very aromatic, today’s wine transports the drinker to Burgundy. If Burgundy were in the Russian River Valley. Or is it the other way around? The point we are trying to make here, is that this wine finds a delightful balance between the best that both of these two distinct Pinot-producing worlds have to offer.

A tad shy, at first, the wine comes alive after thirty or more minutes of decanting - or a bunch of hearty, in the glass swirling. Enjoy now, or cellat this food-friendly wine for the next several years.