Terrific single-field Pinot Noir with Burgundian elegance and 97 points from Robert Parker in the new 2020 vintage!
The legendary Sanford & Benedict field has been planted with vines dating back to 1971. The grapes from here yield some of the area’s most complex, elegant and enchanting Pinot Noir wines.
The wine is stored in oak barrels for 12-14 months. Half of the dishes are new. Here you get a masterful and Burgundian Pinot Noir that possesses a completely unique elegance. The quality is fully on par with great premier crus as well as grand crus from Burgundy. This is nothing short of a masterpiece that just has to be tried!
About Tyler Winery
Purity, lightness and balance are the basic ideas of Justin Willet’s wine philosophy. The young winemaker chose very early in his career to go against the grain and make wines that were certainly ripe, but not overripe. Which was aged in oak barrels, but not new oak. And which were high in acid and low in alcohol. Back then, the trend was exactly the opposite. The wines had to be full-bodied, sweet and alcoholic, and many shook their heads at Justin’s wines.
The art historian who became a winemaker
Justin Willet – whose middle name is Tyler – has no formal training in wine. He studied art history and architecture and also completed his studies before choosing to apprentice with a small wine producer in the Santa Rita Hills. Here, the young intern really got his hands into the grape vat and learned from the ground up how good wine should be put together from start to finish.
From outsider to insider
Along the way he developed his own ideas, and after just one year, Justin made his first eight casks of pinot noir wine. The beginning was difficult because his style was so different from what you were used to in the Californian wine world, but gradually more and more people opened their eyes to the quality of his wines, and today they are served in several of America’s leading restaurants.
Willet does not own a single plot of land himself, but has leased some of the best old-vine fields in Santa Barbara County. He tramples the vineyards himself and follows the cultivation closely. He is also involved in the cellar, where only the best grape material is included in the pure and elegant Chardonnay and Pinot Noir wines from Tyler Winery, and the modest eight barrels he started with have now grown to 5000 cases annually.
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