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Shooting Star Reds
JED STEELE'S SHOOTING STAR
PINOT NOIR
CARNEROS
The philosophy at Steele Wines has always been to produce
the highest quality wine that we could. Since we have selected
some of California’s finest vineyards to provide
us with the best grapes possible it should be easy to make
the best wine each year. However, Mother Nature always
rules and even in a good vintage from a good vineyard we
may have wines which we feel are not up to the quality
for a bottling under the Steele label. Sometimes we find
that some of our lots of Pinot Noir from Sangiacomo are
not as concentrated as we liked so we again allowed a Shooting
Star bottling of Carneros Pinot Noir.
We used a combination of French and American oak barrels.
Because we felt that this wine would always be for Shooting
Star, we did not use as much new oak as we do for Steele
and the overall percentage of new oak is about 15%.
This is a lighter wine, which has the characteristic
cherry fruit and low tannins of Pinot noir. This is definitely
a quaffing wine and not a wine for long term cellaring.
Enjoy this wine with lighter foods, picnic fare or just
on its own. |
