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2017 Black Kite Pinot Noir Kite's Rest Anderson Valley 750 ml

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The Unforgettable Pinot Noir

Robert Redford came into Napa Valley's iconic Tra Vigne restaurant on a busy Friday night, perusing a wine list that contained cult Napa Cabernets and French icons galore. But he’d arrived seeking one bottle: Black Kite. He gave it his personal stamp of approval, telling the servers "This is a wine you have to know, I simply love it."

Boasting 95 points and Editors’ Choice honors from Wine Enthusiast, this is exactly why the magazine has listed Black Kite among “America’s Best Pinot Noirs.” Crafted by  winemaker Jeff Gaffner—who helped Château St. Jean take home a Wine Spectator Wine of the Year award—it’s a stunner of a Pinot from a renowned site, and it had us all-in from the first sip. 

Vinous wrote that Black Kite “handled the 2017 vintage with aplomb, producing concentrated yet lively wines,” and this hails from what Robert Whitley of Wine Review Online called “one of the most spectacular Pinot Noir vineyards in the New World”—their Kite’s Rest Vineyard. 

Kite’s Rest sits just ten miles from the Pacific Ocean, in the so-called “Deep End” of Mendocino County’s Anderson Valley, starting at the Navarro River and rising 400 feet to the edge of the redwood forest. With a northern exposure, the Pinot Noir grown at this site enjoys an even longer hang time than the rest of Anderson Valley, promoting slow, even ripening—what every winemaker in the world wants.

This is the kind of Pinot Noir that got Robert Redford so excited he just had to share it, and we're passing on that enthusiastic recommendation to you.