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Sojourn Cellars is a partnership between Craig Haserot and Erich Bradley, two friends who met on the tennis courts of Sonoma, and who share a desire to create delicious, handcrafted artisanal wines. Erich describes his winemaking as New World style complemented by Old World sensibilities, and he employs artisanal techniques to produce superior and distinctive wines.

2006 Pinot Noir Sonoma Coast $35.95

Fruit from the Sangiacomo Roberts Road Vineyard, Windsor Oaks Vineyard and a touch of Small Vines Estate Vineyard provides the foundation for our 2006 Sonoma Coast Pinot noir.

This wine is a blend of six clones from different vineyards, which provide substantial layers of complexity. The Windsor Oaks component is a new vineyard for Sojourn in 2006 and is a crossover vineyard straddling both the Sonoma Coast and Russian River Valley appellations. The blocks from this vineyard provide a great base on which to layer the additional components.

We were also able to obtain a small amount of fruit from Small Vines, which contributes a wonderful forest floor element. The nose on this wine shows pomegranate, cherry and currants. In the mouth, roasted herbs and damp earth, as well as vanilla from the new French oak barrels, dominate the palate.

2006 Pinot Noir Sangiacomo Vineyards, Sonoma Coast $47.95

2006 marks the third vintage for our flagship Pinot noir with fruit from the Sangiacomo family. This 2006 wine is a blend of 80 percent from the Roberts Road Vineyard and 20 percent from the Lakeville Vineyard. We were fortunate to have had the opportunity to obtain the Lakeville fruit in 2006, and the wines blended together simply make a better wine than bottling them separately. This wine comes from two clones; 115: which adds structure, and 777, which contributes spicy, earthy aromatics.

The 2006 growing season was a challenging one in many respects for Sonoma County grape growers. June and July brought blistering heat, mixed with some very cool and foggy stretches of weather. Clusters were very tight and berry sizes were larger than normal.

The Sangiacomo's have been farming grapes for many years and fortunately the Pinot noir fruit we obtained was clean, ripe and flavorful. The nose exudes floral overtones with ripe cherries. On the palate, sweet cherries and raspberries dominate, along with rich spice and earth. This wine is a bit more elegant and reserved in style than its predecessors... We think it's fabulous!

2006 Cabernet Sauvignon Sonoma Valley $47.95

Our 2006 Sonoma Valley Cabernet Sauvignon is our classic blend of 100 percent Cabernet Sauvignon fruit from selected hillside and Valley floor vineyards, mirroring our successful 2004 vintage. The blend comprises 70 percent Cabernet Sauvignon fruit from the hillside Mountain Terraces Vineyard and 30 percent Cabernet Sauvignon fruit from select prime vineyards on the Sonoma Valley floor.

The Mountain Terraces Vineyard component is a 50/50 split of the Phase-2 (white ash soil) and Phase-3 (red lava soil) blocks. The power and strength of the muscular hillside fruit is delicately balanced with a touch of bright, Valley floor acidity. Red currants and blackberry complement each other on the nose, while in the mouth the smooth texture is accented by mocha and dark chocolate.

Give this wine until mid-2008 to fully integrate -- We expect it to equal or best its 2004 predecessor.

2006 Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon Mountain Terraces Vineyard, Sonoma Valley $74.95

This wine is a monster in progress. Produced from a selection of our best barrels from Mountain Terraces Vineyard, this 100 percent Cabernet Sauvignon is massive now and will continue to pick up weight in the bottle. Erich felt strongly that we had the quality in barrel to bottle a true, reserve-quality wine. And after a considerable amount of blending work to identify the very best barrels, we feel that we have come up with a prodigious wine.

Sojourn sourced Mountain Terraces Vineyard fruit from two significant but different blocks. The Phase-2 fruit grown in rhyolitic soils (white ash) provides bright red fruit, substantial tannic structure and a higher pH. Phase-3 fruit is grown in basalt soil (red lava) and produces small berries from its low calcium and nitrogen soils. The wine from Phase-3 is deep, dark and concentrated with an iron ore mineral component.

This wine has an inky, bluish-purple color to the rim, with a nose of blackberries and cassis mixed with black currants. Earth and terrior ooze from the soil, and notes of heavily roasted coffee and bittersweet chocolate are present in the mouth. The tannins are ripe and integrated, and the acidity is vibrant, but low profile. This wine possesses tremendous texture, a sumptuous mid-palate and a very long finish.

Hooray!

175 cases produced

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