Margins Santa Cruz Mountains Pinot Noir 2019 (750 ml)

An extremely light Pinot, with tart crunchy fruit and a gravelly mineral backbone, and delicious, refreshing acidity.  Vinification: 100% destemmed. Fermented on skins for one week. Aged in neutral oak for 16.5 months. Native​ ​fermentation, no fining, no filtration, no other modifications or additions except 20 ppm of sulfur​ ​dioxide the week before bottling. Bio: Ever on the quest for something ‘marginal,’ I was striving to make a very light bodied Pinot like I did in 2018. That did not happen. Every year in the vineyard is different, and part of what makes low-intervention wine special is that we strive to highlight and embrace the inconsistencies from year to year instead of trying to homogenize everything. This Pinot is brambley and has some ​nice reduction on the nose (think evergreen tree, not hydrogen sulfide at all). It tastes like partial whole cluster, but those of you who have been drinking Margins for a while know that I destem all of the reds. While I typically attempt