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2020 Brian David Pinot Noir Russian River Valley 750 ml
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The Thrill of the Catch
Sommeliers are really just like us: Despite what their Instagram feeds imply, they’re not sitting around drinking $300 Burgundies all day. They get just as excited as we do when they find an affordable bottle that blows away expectations.
The 2020 Brian David Pinot Noir Russian River packs so much quality into the bottle, drinking it makes you feel like you’re getting away with something. It comes from an Advanced Sommelier friend who has worked at MICHELIN three-star restaurants and curated world-class wine lists for the Charlie Palmer Group—and his aim with Brian David is to deliver a thrill-of-the-catch feeling to everyone who takes a sip of one of his wines.
With this bottle, he did it by sourcing grapes from a foggy vineyard in Green Valley, the tiny AVA in the middle of Russian River made famous by the likes of Radio-Coteau, Paul Hobbs, and Littorai. The result is a wine so delicious, generous, and brimming with red fruit that it’s already going on the lists at Niku Steakhouse in San Francisco and Charlie Palmer Steakhouse in Napa.
Our somm friend gets a charge out of generating the same joy in customers that he feels when he discovers a true gem. For years, he did it guest by guest in some of the top restaurants in the US. Now he’s doing it for consumers across America, but with a caveat: He only produces a wine under the Brian David label when the stars align—and align they did on this inaugural release.