Santa Cruz Mountains Mindego Ridge Pinot Noir

Beef, Veal, Game (deer, venison), Poultry

The Mindego Ridge is a new wine to the Kutch range in 2019, from a vineyard planted in 2009 at the high end of the fog line in the Santa Cruz Mountains. It’s a farm of real excitement within the region, and Kutch’s expression is noted for restraint among the few peers with access to the fruit.

Jamie Kutch’s route to winemaking began late. He had graduated in finance and found himself increasingly bored with the rat race of New York trading floor. As he became more and more fixated on wine and the industry, he would chuck it all in and relocate to California, armed with savings, a steadfast determination and unbridled passion to produce Pinot Noir. His inaugural releases came as recently as 2005. After a rocky road, Kutch is today considered one of the leading exponents of Pinot Noir, ever refining and thrilling for wines of refinement, brightness and translucent expression of place.