Littorai Mays Canyon Pinot Noir 2012

Grape: Pinot Noir
Vintage: 2012
Type: Red

This red wine comes from Mays Canyon, the Porter-Bass estate on the western edge of the Russian River Valley outside Guerneville, 8 miles from the Pacific. At 200 to 400 feet, the vineyard is wrapped on 3 sides by the Russian River and ringed by redwoods that shelter and warm it. Hugo gravelly loam over sandstone and shale holds the day's heat as the evening fog rolls in. First planted in the late 1800s and replanted in 1999, it gives one of the darker wines in Littorai's range.