Onward Redwood Valley Pinot Noir Hawkeye Ranch 2022 NO20231115 a grower Champagne for people

a grower Champagne for people who like to go off-script

Willi Schaefer is a benchmark Mosel grower

The 2021 shows hallmark freshness and purity with racy acidity and complexity built to develop gracefully in cellar

cocoa and almond

fresh myrtle and vanilla on the nose

Onward Redwood Valley Pinot Noir Hawkeye Ranch 2022 NO20231115 a grower Champagne for peopleFaith Armstrong Foster named her winery after the small boat that ferried her to school from a tiny island in British Columbia: Onward. The name suits her, because she has spent a career moving steadily toward wines with more restraint than California usually permits. Hawkeye Ranch, up in Mendocino's Redwood Valley, is her long standing source, with gravelly loam farmed organically and certified Fish Friendly, and Pinot Noir vines planted in the 1970s