Mount Eden Pinot Noir Estate 2021 2025 L'Assemblage Part 1 The blend is half Grenache

The blend is half Grenache

but at 923 meters in the mountains above Valencia it becomes something else entirely

and this bottle is now in its drinking plateau: complex

focused edge

Mount Eden Pinot Noir Estate 2021 2025 L'Assemblage Part 1 The blend is half GrenacheMount Eden's Estate Pinot Noir is one of the most historically important Pinots in America. Martin Ray planted Pinot Noir on this Santa Cruz mountaintop in 1945, with budwood traced through Paul Masson back to the great Burgundy houses possibly Domaine Louis Latour itself and brought to California in the 1880s. Today seven acres of those low yielding vines deliver one to one and a half tons per acre. Above the fog line at 2,000 feet, planted in