Reserve Pinot Noir
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Typically best enjoyed 3–10 years from the vintage release.
🍽️ wine.food_pairings
Roasted duck breast, wild mushroom risotto, seared salmon with a cherry reduction.
✨ wine.spec_sheet
The Martinelli Reserve Pinot Noir is a masterful expression of the Russian River Valley's unique terroir, shaped by the cooling maritime fog that rolls in from the Pacific Ocean and the region's famous Goldridge sandy loam soils. Sourced from select blocks of the family's historic estate vineyards, this wine reflects over a century of agricultural heritage. The Martinelli family employs rigorous hand-farming and yield-limiting techniques to ensure maximum concentration. In the cellar, the grapes undergo fermentation with native yeasts and the wine is aged in premium French oak barrels. To preserve its natural texture, deep complexity, and vibrant fruit character, it is bottled unfined and unfiltered, resulting in a lush, velvety Pinot Noir defined by notes of dark cherry, plum, and exotic baking spices.
🍾 wine.about_producer
Established in 1887 by Tuscan immigrants Giuseppe Martinelli and Luisa Vellutini, Martinelli Winery is a historic, family-owned estate nestled in the Russian River Valley of Sonoma County, California. Renowned for its deep agricultural heritage spanning over six generations, the winery is celebrated for farming some of the region's most steep and challenging terroirs, most notably the iconic, near-vertical Jackass Hill vineyard. Under the stewardship of the Martinelli family, the estate employs meticulous hand-farming, dry-farming techniques, and minimalist winemaking practices—such as utilizing native yeasts and bottling unfined and unfiltered—to craft wines of extraordinary concentration and character. Their signature portfolio highlights powerful, old-vine Zinfandels, alongside elegant, single-vineyard Pinot Noirs, Chardonnays, and Syrahs that beautifully express the unique microclimates of Sonoma County.