2016 | Raen | Fort Ross-Seaview Home Field

The 2016 Home Field opens with sweet wild raspberry, orange pith, and rose petals that combine to fill the bowl with sweet resin, coastal moss, green tea, wet rock, and candied orange. The finish is persistent and fades to notes of raspberry and dried herbs as this coastal site lingers on your palate.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: Medium ruby, the 2016 Pinot Noir Home Field Vineyard features scents of raspberry and strawberry preserves, rose petals, tea leaves, iron and bass tones of mushroom. The medium-bodied palate is fresh and lifted with powdery tannins and surprising fruit concentration for its featherweight frame, and it finishes with incredibly detail, energy and length.

• James Suckling: There’s regal sensibility to this with the finest velvet and meat with dried strawberry. Medium to full body. Creamy tannins. Juicy fruit and orange peel. Polished and pretty. Drink now or hold.

Producer Information

As winemakers and farmers, Carlo and Dante attribute a great deal of what they have learned to their grandfather Robert and father Tim, both whom influenced them from a young age. Carlo and Dante’s father Tim was a pioneer for California Pinot Noir in the early 1970s and has always had a tremendous regard for the great wines of Burgundy. To this day his Pinot Noirs from the 1970s are showing incredibly well. Carlo and Dante credit their father’s passion for Pinot Noir as the early inspiration that got them excited at a young age. Dante studied abroad in Switzerland at the Webster University in Genève as well at UC Davis in California. Carlo studied in France at the University of Aix-en-Provence and in Italy at the University of Milan. After their formal studies were complete Carlo and Dante continued their educational work with the winemaking team lead by their father Tim Mondavi at Robert Mondavi Winery and Opus One. When Robert Mondavi Winery was sold in 2004, the brothers joined their father Tim, Aunt-Marcia and grandfather Robert as they founded Continuum in 2005. In 2013 Carlo and Dante founded RAEN winery with the goal to produce world class Pinot Noir on the western hills of the Sonoma Coast. RAEN currently focuses on making three Pinot Noirs, from three unique sites on the Sonoma Coast.

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