Mount Eden Vineyards Estate Pinot Noir 2008

This is our first offering from 2008. The growing conditions fit many parameters of high quality:
low rainfall (25 inches), successful bloom in the spring and a moderate summer heat. The wine
has a classic ruby hue, like only Pinot Noir has, with a sweet explosive nose of soft red fruit,
cherry, pomegranate and earth. To me this variety is all about fruit and earth—round, generous
and intense on the palate this vintage has the expected flavors of the Pinot Noir family of raspberry,
plum black cherry and earth. Some tannin on the finish is apparent with great buttressing
acidity.

Given our sixty-five year lineage, one should expect improvement through 2018 and a drinking
plateau for another decade in a good cellar.