“A Secret Collaboration Between Several Winemakers with Great Vineyard Sourcing.”
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2018 BloodRoot Pinot Noir Sonoma County 750 ml
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The Top of Our Pinot Noir List
We had just finished tasting through a lineup of winemaker Noah Dorrance’s elegant offerings—high-priced single-vineyard Pinots from heralded Sonoma sites sporting rave reviews and scores to match—when he quietly pulled out a bottle of his brand new project.
“One more,” he said. “Try this.”
Dazzling ruby hit our glasses, and lively aromatics soon followed. Playful red fruits—bright red cherry, cranberry, and rhubarb—danced in the glass, while a seriousness from freshly-tilled earth, bay leaf, and crushed rocks spoke to unexpected depths. In an instant, we forgot about the high-end Pinots that had thrilled us just a minute earlier.
That phenomenon wasn’t limited to our tasting. BloodRoot burst onto the scene with absolutely no regard for bottles three and four times the cost, swiftly earning 93 points and Editors’ Choice honors from Wine Enthusiast. They called it “a secret collaboration between several winemakers with great vineyard sourcing who have come together here to make a masterful, value-minded blend.”
Before reading any further, lock up a few bottles. There won’t be another chance to get in on the ground floor of this history-making Pinot.
The 2018 BloodRoot’s “secret” begins with Noah Dorrance and his silent partners—famed winemakers with bona fide Pinot Noir résumés. In making the 2018, each winemaker mined his or her extensive network of growers. Noah told us “almost all the sources for BloodRoot are sites that we make single-vineyard wines from. It’s kind of like an all-star team.”
The goal was always to deliver top-tier pedigree, so Dorrance crafted the 2018 BloodRoot side by side with the single-vineyard wines from Reeves, using the same aging regimen: 18 months in 20% new French oak—practically unheard of for a wine at this price.
At the end of our tasting, the BloodRoot grand finale was nothing short of extraordinary, standing up to the much pricier bottlings Dorrance had paraded before us. With one four ounce pour our whole visit changed. “BloodRoot just moved to the top of our list,” we told Dorrance, “We’ll take all we can get.”
25 cases never seemed so little.