This is our thirty-fifth year of growing grapes; we're getting older and we actually think it is fun to sit on our porch and watch birds. We were thrilled when one of our customers, a wildlife biologist and field ornithologist, shared his list of 48 species of birds he had observed while visiting Navarro: Red-tailed hawk, Ring-necked Duck, Western Scrub-Jay, Yellow-Rumped Warbler and Allen's Hummingbird to name a few, and we knew he had missed, among others, the Western Barn Owl that visits many evenings. Healthy vineyards, free of herbicides and insecticides, host diverse birds, a sundry of insects and the vegetation to feed them. Navarro's best Pinot Noir tastes so good because it comes from healthy vineyards. Diverse clones planted on different rootstocks in a variety of hillside sites results in complexity and it is this complexity which makes Pinot so engaging.

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The wine was fermented in small open-top bins, punched down by hand the old fashioned way and than aged for a year in a selection of our best oak barrels from, no surprise, a diverse group of French coopers. The aromas are bright with cherry and plum but there is an earthy, mushroom quality and a hint of cocoa and leather that bring you back for another sip. Gold Medal winner. Best of Class.

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