Do you find Pinot Noir winemakers are often quite good at Bordeaux varieties?

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@larry schaffer

An interesting thread indeed. And one that really does ‘beg’ the question of whether winemakers are able to ‘get out of their boxes’ to work with other varieties.

Not to run parallels here, but I oftentimes see this with cab/pinot producers working with rhone varieties - especially grenache and mourvedre.

Another name that comes to mind is Justin Willet of Tyler Winery down here - he also does Lieu Dit and does a nice, fresh Cab Franc.

Cheers.

I’d love to see what you could do with Cab and Pinot, Larry!

[mike_pobega]

And my answer is the same as it was in that thread. Ed Kurtzman’s deft hand at his 2015 Sandler Wine Company Cabernet Sauvignon Lazare Vineyard Oak Knoll.

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@Jud Reis

Fred Scherrer is another Pinot producer who produces great Cabs (and Syrah, Zin and Chard). I think there is deftness to all the wines that is sometimes lacking with cab focused producers.

+1

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@Markus S

@M. Dildine

@Larry Link

I’d like to see what Kevin Harvey and the Rhys team could do with a top notch vineyard.

Don’t know about Cab, but Kevin, Jeff, Javier and team are in the process of turning their attention to Nebbiolo, Carricante, Chenin Blanc and Zinfandel (Aeris).

They should rip out a pinot vineyard and plant it to a Latour cepage. Heck, it’s not like they don’t have the land.

And it’s not like California isn’t already knee deep in excellent cab producers!