One of the highlights of my Sonoma trip was a visit to Nalle Winery in Healdsburg. It’s a smallish operation (about 1700 cases per year) in the Russian River Valley. We made it a point to visit Nalle as my brother-in-law Guy, who regularly reads the Wall Street Journal’s wine column, saw this review (excerpted from The Wall Street Journal, Friday, September 16, 2005
© Copyright 2005 The Wall Street Journal):
A Winemaker’s Dozen
From Napa-Sonoma Tour, 12 Bottles to Remember; Going for the Charbono
by Dorothy J. Gaiter and John Brecher
Nalle Winery Pinot Noir 2003, Hopkins Ranch, Russian River Valley($38). We’ve been fans of Nalle’s Zinfandel for years, but this was a revelation: like fresh, ripe raspberry-cherry fruit warm from the sun and bursting inside your mouth. Light, fruity, with some spice and earth and totally winning, it’s the perfect wine for salmon. It makes us smile just to write about it.
Yes, the zin was indeed fabulous, but the pinot was outstanding and I ended up buying several bottles in addition to the zin.
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