Williams Selyem Precious Mountain Vineyard Pinot Noir 2010

Professional Ratings

• 98 Wine Enthusiast
  In recent years, Precious Mountain Vineyard has provided Bob Cabral with some of his most glorious fruit. Tremendous in flash and depth, it offers compelling flavors of raspberry and cherry, accented by sweet, smoky oak. There’s such complexity in the acid and tannin structure, and in the earthy, stony, spicy nuances, that you find something new to love with every sip. This masterpiece is fabulous now, and will develop bottle complexity over the next 15 years, at least.Cellar Selection.
• 92 Wine & Spirits
  Precious Mountain is an early planting in the Fort Ross–Seaview zone of the far coast, on ridges above the fog at 1,400 feet. The Schatzberg’s five acres of pinot noir, dry-farmed and organically grown, consistently produce one of Williams Selyem’s most complex and distinctive wines. In 2010, it’s classical, with just a few rough edges of the vintage: vibrant coastal spice, dark fruit shot through with light, the sweet graham notes of oak, the tart cut of citrus-like acidity. There’s no heat, and there’s a purity of flavor that bodes well for several years of development in the cellar.