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<TABLE BORDER=0 TITLE="Cult Wine Central" SUMMARY="Cult Wine Central"> <TR> <TD><A HREF="http://www.cultwinecentral.com" TITLE="Cult Wine Central"><IMG SRC="https://store.nexternal.com/napawineco/logo.gif" ALT="Cult Wine Central" NAME="Cult Wine Central" BORDER=0></A></TD> <TD>  </TD> <TD><H1><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/napawineco/Category1>Wineries</A> / William Knuttell</H1></TD> </TR> </TABLE> Ottimino's winemaker, William Knuttel, is uncompromising, ever curious, a winemaker's winemaker. For him, wine is terroir and style and technique, and it is more than that too. Wine is geography and it is a study in psychology - geography because the land nurturing the grapes stamps a character into the wine, and psychology because the experiences of past winemaking ultimately find their way into the current endeavor. <A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/napawineco/Product636 TITLE="Wm. Knuttel 2004 Le Petit Malin"><IMG SRC="https://store.nexternal.com/napawineco/images/wn04t.jpg" ALIGN=left ALT="Wm. Knuttel 2004 Le Petit Malin" NAME="Wm. Knuttel 2004 Le Petit Malin" BORDER=0></A> <A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/napawineco/Product636 TITLE="Wm. Knuttel 2004 Le Petit Malin">Wm. Knuttel 2004 Le Petit Malin</A> -- $35.00 -- Our whimsical name “Le Petit Malin” can be loosely translated as “a little sly one,” or “a little mischievous one,” and all the mischief here is in the blend. Malbec and Petit Verdot—once popular in Bordeaux, dutifully added to Meritage blends in California, and now rising stars in Argentina and Chile—here stand on their own, and to great effect! Malbec is deeply colored when cropped properly (winemaker . . . <A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/napawineco/Product694 TITLE="Wm. Knuttel 2005, Clone 777, Pinot Noir"><IMG SRC="https://store.nexternal.com/napawineco/images/wn04t1.jpg" ALIGN=left ALT="Wm. Knuttel 2005, Clone 777, Pinot Noir" NAME="Wm. Knuttel 2005, Clone 777, Pinot Noir" BORDER=0></A> <A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/napawineco/Product694 TITLE="Wm. Knuttel 2005, Clone 777, Pinot Noir">Wm. Knuttel 2005, Clone 777, Pinot Noir</A> -- $35.00 -- With post-phylloxera re-planting in the early 1990s, clones of Pinot Noir were extensively evaluated. The majority of these were sourced from France, and William Knuttel had the good fortune to be winemaker at Saintsbury when the earliest clones found their way into California. Clone 777, from the Dijon region, was one of the first to be budded, along with Clones 667 and 115 (these were pre-certification . . . <A HREF="http://www.nexternal.com/napawineco" TITLE="Cult Wine Central Products">Cult Wine Central Products</A> <A HREF="http://www.cultwinecentral.com">Cult Wine Central</A> Cult Wine Central <A HREF="http://www.nexternal.com" TITLE="shopping cart">shopping cart</A> powered by Nexternal