Coopersmith vineyard surroundsthe Merry Edwards Wineryon Laguna Ridge, overlooking the Laguna de Santa Rosa. Its famous soils Gold Ridge loam and the redder Sebastopol series are sandy and deep, creating great drainage, a necessary condition for growing an exceptional Pinot Noir.Since its bottling this Pinot has developed an exciting, intense aroma loaded with its signature cocoa butter. Its syrupy and thick with blueberry jam, black cherry, dark bramble fruit and cassis. Its aone-cooperwine, preferring to age comfortably each year in only Franois Frres barrels, which impart notes of exotic spices, thick-cut bacon and prosciutto.