Faculty Notes: The Gift Guide for the Pinot Lover

The short answer

Give them something they can’t easily get for themselves: a bottle we only sell here, a Wine Club membership that keeps the good stuff coming, or a reason to visit. The best wine gifts aren’t the fanciest label, they’re the ones that come with a story attached, and every bottle that leaves our gravity-flow cellar has one.

Four gifts for four kinds of Pinot lover

• For the collector: Our 2021 Pinot Noir Family Reserve, Russian River Valley is the bottle we’d put in anyone’s hands first: balanced, food-friendly, and built to show what Russian River Valley Pinot Noir can do. For someone who wants something more unusual to talk about, the 2021 Pinot Noir Whole Cluster, Russian River Valley ferments with its stems still on, giving it a spice and structure you won’t find in a typical bottling.
• For the host: A Moshin Wine Club membership is a standing invitation to the next pour, delivered right to their door. It’s the gift that keeps opening throughout the year instead of ending on New Year’s Day.
• For the friend who loves an experience more than a thing: A gift certificate for a tasting at the winery gets them out to Westside Road for an afternoon, which is hard to top as a gift in our book.
• For the team or client list: Planning a team or client gift? Reach out to us directly and we’ll help put something together that fits the group.

Why it’s worth giving

Every bottle starts the same way we walked through in our harvest post: hand-picked fruit, destemmed rather than crushed, and moved by gravity through our four-level cellar instead of pumps. It’s slower, and it’s more work, but it’s why the wine in the bottle tastes like it could only have come from here. When you give a bottle of Moshin Pinot Noir, you’re giving the whole process behind it, something the person on your list can taste the difference in.

Try this at home

Before a bottle becomes a gift, open one yourself. Pair the Family Reserve with the herb-roasted chicken from our Harvest Table dinner post, or set it on your own table alongside whatever you’re cooking this season. It’s easier to recommend a gift you’ve already enjoyed.

Ready to give the gift of Pinot?

Shop our wines, explore Wine Club membership, or book a tasting for someone who’d rather experience Moshin in person. Planning a larger team or client gift? Reach out to us directly and we’ll help you put something together.

Ordering for the holidays? Check our shipping page for order-by dates to make sure your gift arrives in time; cutoffs vary by state and shipping method.

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