Scherrer Winery Russian River Valley Pinot Noir 2016 AFKAT_2025 faintly smoky

faintly smoky

The Barrel Strength Rye program launched in 2015 and has become one of the most sought-after limited annual releases in American whiskey

single pot still Irish whiskey

bitter and sweet orange peel

From Japan's main Honshu island

Scherrer Winery Russian River Valley Pinot Noir 2016 AFKAT_2025 faintly smokyFred Scherrer's winery is an unmarked metal building outside Sebastopol, and he still does the cellar work himself. Ten years as winemaker at Dehlinger taught him patience: let the fruit speak, touch lightly, don't rush the bottle out the door. This Russian River Pinot grows in sandy Goldridge soils, ages a long time before release, and goes into bottle unfined and unfiltered. The 2016 is nine years on now, which is the entire point it's the rare