Factories & Smoke 2007 Pinot Noir

Quick Overview

Unfiltered, with a rose petal hue, it's bright with sweet and sour cherry flavors and a faint hint of what may become a bouquet of sweet dry hay.

Factories & Smoke 2007 Pinot Noir
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Product Description

"Factories and Smoke is borrowed from a poem that I wrote while living in San Francisco when I was 21 years old. There was and still is something romantic and inspiring about industry and these monolithic-like structures. While roaming about in Chicago on a cold day in February 2008, I was reminded of the title and so it made its way on to a wine bottle." -Kenny Likitprakong

This is a single vineyard bottling from the Potter Valley in Mendocino County.

Additional Information

Food Pairings	Cream of Mushroom Soup served in Baby Potatoes
Varietal	Pinot Noir
Winemaker Profile	Kenny Likitprakong The Hobo Wine Company is the brainchild, side job, menace to the wine industry, hedged bet, cash strain, mental anguish, late night musing, bruised hands, dirty t-shirts, and constant companion of Kenny Likitprakong. Despite knowing better, he started his own label in 2002 with the simple idea to have some good fun. Here is what he has to say about his company Hobo Wines: The question always comes up, Why Hobo? A friend in the wine industry once told me that he figured the hobo name came from the fact that I was about the dirtiest winemaker he knew. The part about me being the dirtiest winemaker might be true, but it is not where the name came from. It's partly a trip I'm on about a dead American era and partly about the fact that I don't own a winery or any vineyards. If you are looking for estate bottled wines, you have come to the wrong place. Hobo is my tribute and homage to a freedom and an era that I grew up romanticizing. I think I spent a lot of my late teens and early twenties chasing the rambling ways of the American Hobo. When I was seventeen I started traveling around, listening to Woody Guthrie and Bruce Springsteen and the likes, seeing the different parts of the country and other countries, writing in journals and taking photos and didn't really stop until I was twenty-three or twenty-four. As the experiences racked up, I found out that the hoboes had disappeared. The hobo had become a relic in the story of our expanding country. Like all good heroes, I figured they deserved their place in history and on wine bottles. Instead of becoming a hobo, I became a Hobo Winemaker. Of the two ways to make wine, with and without money, the first should probably be the only, but a few of us slip through the cracks and do it on the skinny. No winery, no vineyards, no truck, no warehouse, no employees, nothing. There are advantages. Making small lots comes naturally, the flexability to pick and choose grape type, vineyard, appellation, and winery on an ongoing basis, and a larger circle of people involved which means more ideas and expertise.
Case Price	Buy 6 for $ 26.60 each -- 5% discount Buy 12 for $ 25.20 each -- 10% discount Mix and match for quantity discount