Mendo Pinot Noir California - Leo Steen

Refined and extremely well-formed Pinot from Mendocino in Northern California, with a nice European influence on the taste.
Lots of charming fruit flavors, including raspberries and slightly overripe cherries.
Juicy, nuanced and velvety aftertaste.
It's SO refined and 'well-made'!!

• Gently pressed.
• Fermented with our own natural yeast.
• Aged for 16 months in 228 liter Burgundian casks.

A little about the house…
Behind Leo Steen Wines is Danish-born Leo Steen Hansen, who moved to California in 1999.
As the son of the then head chef at Kryb-i-Ly Kro, between Middelfart and Kolding, at the age of 20 he apprenticed with master sommelier Orla Farman at Munkebjerg Hotel.
Later, he was head sommelier at Restaurant Kong Hans in Copenhagen for a few years, before traveling to California to further his education and perhaps fulfill his dream of making wine.
He ended up in Sonoma and quickly got jobs as a waiter, sommelier and wine buyer at Dry Creek Kitchen and Cyrus Restaurant in Healdsburg.

In 2002, he began working in the cellar at Stuhmuller Vineyards in Alexander Valley, where he simultaneously completed an oenology education.
Today he is responsible for the vinification at Stuhmuller, but a few years ago he also started making a few wines under his own name, Leo Steen Wines, by finding grapes from carefully selected plots in California and vinifying them himself.
Leo has garnered great recognition for his wines, which are stylistically kept as close to the European style as possible, with good fruit and juice, but also with a good structure and a bite that goes well with good gastronomy.

100% Pinot Noir
Alcohol: 13.9%
Contents: 75 cl