This is Iron Horse’s signature Pinot Noir, named for our highly prized soil type - a rare, fine-grained sandy loam, known for its excellent drainage. This bottling is a blend from four blocks on the estate. There’s fruit without sweetness, acid without drying tannin, and a silky-smooth texture.
Clone 828 brings hearty ripeness. Pommard 5 layers in silky texture and roundness. By nose, this wine shows toasted oak, plum compote, and cardamom. By mouth, blackberry, plum, with soft, but supportive tannins.
Winemaking
Hand-picked from four blocks on the estate, the grapes are de-stemmed into small open-top half-ton macro bin fermenters or into stainless steel tanks (depending on the size of that day’s harvest), then cold-soaked (using dry ice) for four to seven days. Before fermentation is complete, the new wine is gently pressed from the skins and transferred to French oak barrels. Fermentation then goes to completion in the barrels, allowing us to stir the lees as the wine goes through malolactic fermentation.
Specs
Vintage: 2019
Varietal: Pinot Noir
Appellation: Green Valley of Russian River Valley
Blend: Clone 828, Calera, and Pommard 5
Malolactic Fermentation: 100%
Barrels: Average age of barrels 4.5 years, 100% French oak from the center of France, fire-bent, medium + toast and toasted heads.
Barrel Aged: 9 Months
Harvest Dates: September 9 - 21, 2019
Date Bottled: November 11, 2020
Release Date: October 2022
Alcohol: 14.0%
pH: 3.61
Acidity: 5.8 g/L
Residual Sugar: < 2 g/L
pH: 3.61
Total Production: 2,825 Cases
2021 Iron Horse Audrey Chardonnay
Tasting Notes
This Chardonnay opens with captivating aromas of floral blossoms and tart green apple, followed by notes of juicy stone fruit and a whisper of Madagascar vanilla bean. On the front palate, crisp green apple shines, seamlessly integrating with the oak to create a balanced, mouth-filling experience. The mid-palate offers delightful hints of ripe peach and fragrant floral notes, with a creamy texture that carries through to the smooth finish.
Winemaking
Only as the grapes arrive at the winery do we decide how to treat them. This hand-harvested Chardonnay was handled in small 10-ton lots (one press load) at a time. 100% of the Chardonnay grapes were pressed as whole clusters, just as we do with sparkling wine. Frequent lees stirring or ’batonnage’, at least three times a week for at least seven months, contributes to the complex flavors.
Specs
Vintage: 2021
Varietal: Chardonnay
Appellation: Green Valley of Russian River Valley, Sonoma County Blend: 100% Hyde Old Wente
Malolactic Fermentation: 0%
Barrels: 100% Water-bent French oak, 3.5 years old
Iron Horse is one of Sonoma County’s most prestigious, small, independent, estate, family-owned wineries located in cool, foggy Green Valley. Iron Horse Sparkling Wines have been served at the White House for five consecutive presidential administrations, beginning with the Reagan-Gorbachev Summit Meeting in Geneva on November 20, 1985, which led to the end of the Cold War. Wine & Spirits Magazine has named Iron Horse Sparkling Winery of the Year nine times.
Iron Horse Chardonnay is signature Green Valley – bright, crisp, clean, cool-climate perfection. Pinot Noir is the winery’s rising star. Current releases include eight single-vineyard Pinots, each representing a specific vineyard block on the estate.
Iron Horse has been named an American icon in “Icons of the American Market Place” published by Random House. The estate was named after a railroad stop which crossed the property in the 1890s. Winemaker Rodney Strong rediscovered it as a vineyard site in 1970, planting the original 55 acres of Chardonnay
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2019 Iron Horse Gold Ridge Pinot Noir
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2021 Iron Horse Audrey Chardonnay
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Price Comparison
$864.00/Case for 6x 2019 Iron Horse Gold Ridge Pinot Noir + 6x 2021 Iron Horse Audrey Chardonnay at Iron Horse
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