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| "Brothers Carlo and Dante Mondavi have wine in their veins. They also seem to have an incredible knack for making world-class Pinot Noir."
Antonio Galloni, Vinous |
| | | | "It was Carlo and Dante Mondavi's great-grandparents Rosa and Cesare Mondavi who left Sassoferrato in their native Italy to start a new life in California. Their grandfather, Robert Mondavi, Rosa and Cesare's son, founded his eponymous winery in Napa Valley in 1966 and the groundbreaking Franco-Californian joint venture Opus One in 1980. Family strife led to the sale of the estate in 2004, but Robert's children and grandchildren all started over in the wine business. 'Every time my family has had a setback – and we have had major setbacks – we fall down, we get back up,' Mondavi says when asked about his family history. 'When my family sold the Robert Mondavi Winery in 2004, it was not something we had planned. My father and grandfather took everything and began Continuum.' At the time, Mondavi recalls, his grandfather was the first to ask: 'What’s next?' ….
The brothers, however, started a completely different project on the extreme Sonoma Coast, making Pinot Noir. This is something of a departure from the plush Cabernet Sauvignons the Mondavi name is usually associated with. 'I have always been drawn to the Sonoma Coast. I had grown up there, going surfing,' Mondavi says. 'It’s always been a goal to fulfill; a personal thirst that Dante and I both had, our dream of making a wine that could have impact: when you closed your eyes and smelled and tasted it, it had greater emotion than just enjoying wine. I just felt this was possible on the coast. Finally in 2013, Dante and I began RAEN, after more than a decade of researching and looking.'"
Falstaff |
| | "RAEN focuses on coastal sites where fruit can ripen at relatively low sugars. The wines are fermented with ambient yeasts and see a good deal of whole clusters. In tasting, the RAEN Pinots convey the essence of site with tremendous depth and intensity, but no excess weight. Perhaps even more importantly, these are wines of real personality and breed. Don't miss them."
Antonio Galloni, Vinous |
| | | | Planted to clone 777; native fermentation, 100% whole cluster; unfined and unfiltered; only 900 cases produced |
| | ▪ "The 2021 Pinot Noir Sea Field is a transparent jeweled ruby color and takes things up a notch with its superb aromatics of ripe cherry, gravelly earth, and fresh rose petal. Medium-bodied, with sweet tannins and notes of ripe black raspberry and fresh herbs, it maintains a light sunny touch to its slightly darker profile.
Carlo and Dante Mondavi founded RAEN in the West Sonoma Coast with the goal of seeking California Grand Cru-equivalent sites in the Freestone-Occidental area, and this year saw the promotion of Melanie McIntre from associate winemaker to winemaker. Less than two miles from the ocean, their wines are vibrant expressions of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. In the vineyard, they practice no-till farming .... Seafield is a roughly 4-acre vineyard and is the rockiest site, with an eastern exposure at 1,500 feet of elevation."
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Audrey Frick, JebDunnuck.com |
| ▪ "Extremely aromatic with plums, crushed strawberries, rose flower, powdery dirt, before turning to cherries. Hints of flower stems. Perfumed. Full-bodied and very, very firm. Rather steely. Tight at the end. It opens beautifully in an hour or so."
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