Featured at the 2006 Aspen Food & Wine Event, representing
California Pinot Noir.
Look for Adrian Fog in the Sara Jessica Parker holiday movie The Family Stone.
Robert Parker Jr’s The Wine Advocate Dec. 2005
Adrian Fog
2004 Pinot Noir Savoy Vineyard Anderson Valley
94
Steven Tanzer's International Wine Cellar May/June '05
Adrian Fog
2003 Pinot Noir Savoy Vineyard Anderson Valley
91
Robert Parker Jr’s The Wine Advocate Feb. 2005
Adrian Fog
2003 Pinot Noir Demuth Vineyard Anderson Valley
90
Adrian Fog
2003 Pinot Noir Savoy Vineyard Anderson Valley
94
Adrian Fog
2003 Pinot Noir Oppenlander Vineyard Mendocino
95
Adrian Fog
2001 Pinot Noir Two SistersVineyard Russian River
91
WINE BEHIND THE LABEL - 2006 Edition
ADRIAN FOG Russian River Valley www.adrianfog.com
Jane Farrell & Stewart Dorman PO Box 1706. Healdsburg CA 95448
Tel: 707 431-1174 Fax: 707 431-1190
This is a small Pinot Noir only operation producing wines of very high quality. As well as
the wines rated below a tiny amount of wine is produced from the Two Sisters vineyard in
the Russian River Valley. The Hunnicutt bottling comes from a site just a few miles inland
of the coast. Although typically cool in climate the intensity of the red berry fruit
character is helped by the level of* sun exposure the vineyard gets. Both the Mendocino
wines have remarkable depth and persistence. The Savoy Vineyard bottling is marked not
just by ripe and pure notes of dark berry and cherry but also by its minerality and fresh
acid structure. Planted on the eastern slopes of the Anderson Valley the vines crop at
barely more than a ton and a half to the acre. The Oppenlander site, like the Savoy is
planted to a range of clones adding to the wines potential complexity. The climate is a
touch cooler with the vineyard planted at a slightly higher altitude. This shows in the
wine which is a tighter, more structured example. Subtle blueberry fruit needs time to
express itself. All the wines are aged in a mix of new and used oak and are bottled
unfined and unfiltered. (DM)
Adrian Fog Pinot Noir Savoy Vineyard Anderson Valley
Adrian Fog Pinot Noir Oppenlander Vineyard Mendocino County
Adrian Fog Pinot Noir Hunnicutt Vineyard Sonoma Coast
- Parker's Wine Buyers Guide , Sixth Edition
Outstanding Pinot Noir Producer - Adrian Fog Winery \
92 Rating- Robert Parker Jr’s The Wine Advocate
1999 Floodgate Vineyard Anderson Valley Pinot Noir
Consistently one of California’s finest Pinot Noirs, this dark ruby-colored 1999
boasts a gorgeous perfume of blackberries, raspberries, cherries, flowers, and smoke.
Sweet on the attack, with superb definition as well as richness without heaviness, this
impressive Pinot will drink well for 5-6 years
Robert Parker Jr’s The Wine Advocate Dec.2003
Adrian Fog
2002 Pinot Noir Demuth Vineyard Anderson Valley
91
Adrian Fog
2002, 2003, 2004 Pinot Noir Savoy Vineyard Anderson Valley
93
Adrian Fog
2001 Pinot Noir Savoy Vineyard Anderson Valley
95
Adrian Fog
2002 Pinot Noir Two SistersVineyard Russian River
90
Adrian Fog
2001 Pinot Noir Two SistersVineyard Russian River
91
I need to learn more about proprietors Stewart Dorman and Jane Farrell, who are producing
some of the New World’s most extraordinary Pinot Noirs. I was blown away by their
2001 Pinot Noir Savoy Vineyard, an exquisitely singular effort offering aromas of melted
blueberries, intermixed with hints of smoke as well as new oak. This dense ruby-colored
Pinot possesses gorgeously rich black fruits, a seamless integration of acidity, wood, and
tannin, full body, and tremendous purity as well as stature. A stunning expression of
Pinot Noir, it represents the essence of the varietal and the vineyard. Drink it over the
next 5-8 years. The 2001 Pinot Noir Two Sisters Vineyard, while a mere mortal, is still
outstanding. Notes of cola, root beer, cinnamon, and allspice jump from the glass of this
medium ruby colored 2001. Totally different from its sibling, it exhibits complex
aromatics, loads of fruit, and medium body. Drink it over the next 3-5 years.
The impressive 2002’s include the light ruby-colored 2002 Pinot Noir Demuth Vineyard,
a medium-bodied, delicate effort revealing a big sweet, strawberry and cherry nose, and
focused broad, seamless flavors of pomegranate and earth. It can be drunk now or cellared
for 5-6 years. The 2002 Pinot Noir Two Sisters Vineyard is a nuanced, medium bodied Pinot
possessing an elegance and delicacy rarely found in the New World. Notes of flowers,
berries, cherries, and minerals emerge from this introspective Pinot Noir. The more one
sniff and swallows, the more nuances become apparent. This is an understated wine that
requires respect as well as admiration. It should drink well for 4-5 years. The 2002 Pinot
Noir Savoy Vineyard’s bouquet merits 96 points as it is one of the most complete,
complex grand cru Pinot Noirs one could ever smell from the New World. Forest floor,
flower garden, sweet cherry, strawberry, crushed rocks, and smoky game-like scents
represent an aromatic tour de force. The flavors are not quite at the same level, but they
are superb nevertheless. This is a medium dark ruby-colored Pinot possesses gorgeous
sweetness as well as an expansive mouth feel yet an ethereal lightness. Drink this
remarkable Pinot Noir over the next 5-6 years
92 POINTS - Robert Parker, Jr.'s The Wine Advocate
Consistently one of California's finest Pinot Noirs, this dark ruby-colored 1999 boasts a
gorgous perfume of blackberries, raspberries, cherries, flowers, and smoke. Sweet on the
attack, with superb definition as well as richness without heaviness, this impressive
Pinot will drink well for 5-6 years
93 RATING - The Wine Advocate
"Sadly, there are only 180 cases of this profound Pinot Noir. It boasts an opaque
purple color as well as a super-ripe bouquet of black fruits, smoky oak, grilled meats,
and berry jam. Full-bodied, exceptionally well-delineated, with admirable fruit, purity,
and intensity, this statuesque Pinot Noir can be drunk over the next 7-8 years."
90 RATING - Wine Spectator, September 15, 2000
"Smooth and polished, with plum, black cherry, wild berry and floral notes; a touch
of herb and cedar. Supple tannins."
93 RATING - Insider's Wine Line, Volume 3, Number 5
"... A perfumed nose of cherry, ripe strawberry, raspberry, forest floor, mint, dry
citrus zest with pepper and clove highlights. The flavors of raspberry, pie cherry, mint,
tea and black pepper are very rich and complex followed by a fruity, spicy, expansive
finish."
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