43%off Estate Pinot Noir Santa Lucia Highlands $19.95 Free Shipping All Hahn wines are available for tasting today. In 1991, Nicky Hahn created the Hahn Estates brand to showcase supple and accessible wines from the family's Monterey County vineyards. The Hahn wines are produced from five vineyards located in the Santa Lucia Highlands and Monterey County appellations. This region boasts the most varied climatic conditions of any region in California. The wind and fog interact with solar radiation to slow grapes' ripening, producing up to two months longer growing season than in warmer grape growing regions. These conditions create fruit with more varietal intensity, flavor, depth and structure, and thus, exceptional wines. In German, “Hahn” means “Rooster” and for this reason a rooster embellishes the Hahn Estates label, honoring the Hahn Family’s European Heritage. “The Hahn SLH (Santa Lucia Highland) wines encompass what I believe is the 'soul' of not only the soil and climate, but also of the Hahn team,” according to Winemaker Paul Clifton. “If it were not for the Hahn family having the dedication and passion to purchase and plant this land, these wines would not exist. This is an obvious statement, but an important one. Within that statement, the Hahns have surrounded themselves with a team of people all passionate towards one goal: producing a line of SLH wines of world class quality. Blended in to each of these wines is this team’s signature of passion. When a wine drinker pops the cork and tastes the wine, buried underneath the layers of aromas and flavors is a subliminal sense of the many souls involved in growing and making these wines.” The Santa Lucia Highlands appellation is filled with ancient, glacial alluvial soils and enjoys consistent coastal fog and breezes that create an ideal climate for cooler-weather thriving wine varietals. The elevated location of this appellation allows the vines to take full advantage of the morning sunshine before the afternoon maritime breezes gently cool the vineyards. This climatic combination creates an especially long growing season, allowing the grapes to fully develop and attain maximum varietal potential. With the land that Hahn farms in mind, Winemaker Paul Clifton states, “It is easy to get passive and only observe what is growing above the ground, forming assumptions on why a grapevine is growing too vigorous, or not vigorous enough… the vegetative growth above the soil is a mirror reflection of the roots within the soil. Basically, you plant to the right varietals, you farm it with passion, and you pay attention to Mother Nature and you’ll be rewarded with an outstanding grape.” Hahn Estates Pinot Noir SLH (Santa Lucia Highlands) 2011 This wines plush mouthfeel and vibrant flavors make it a great pairing for Chanterelle and Cremini risotto or a grilled lamb chop with rosemary butter Wine Enthusiast 89 Points:
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