Domaine Della 4 Amours Pinot Noir 2018
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Jeb Dunnuck
The most expensive Pinot Noir in the lineup, the 2018 Pinot Noir Sonoma Coast 4 Amours is a cellar selection of four barrels, with the blend ultimately spending 15 months in 52% new French oak. Lots of framboise, candied cherries, wildflowers, and violet notes all emerge from the glass, and it's beautifully textured and medium to full-bodied, with no hard edges and ripe yet present tannins. Coming all from the Sonoma Coast, this beautiful, powerful Pinot Noir.
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Wine Enthusiast
A four-barrel blend of the vintage, this small-production specialty offering opens in a wealth of high-toned red fruit and citrus. From the bright start it develops velvety richness and savory character on the palate, bursting in black tea, clove, compost and white pepper
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2018 Domaine Della 4 Amours Pinot Noir presents a perfect purity of the grape variety. TASTING NOTES: This wine tantalizes the palate with aromas and flavors of ripe red fruit and brisk minerality. Enjoy its lovely and elegant finish with a rosemary-infused, oven-baked rack of lamb.
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James Suckling
Wild-raspberry, bramble, clove, dried-earth and potpourri aromas. It’s medium-to full-bodied with sleek, fine tannins and bright acidity. Juicy and flavorful with a rounded, spiced finish. Plenty of fruit. Drink or hold.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Medium ruby, the 2018 Pinot Noir 4 Amours has scents of cranberry sauce and pomegranate liqueur accented by blood orange peel and amaro. Medium-bodied, it has a great core of citrus and earth-laced fruits with a grainy frame, seamless freshness and long, nuanced finish.
Domaine Della’s mission is to craft intense and adventurous wines, partnering with the very best growers, to create an exceptional wine for special moments and timeless memories. All wines that have been released since our inaugural Fall Release in 2014on mom’s birthday, August17, have received scores of 90-96+ points from the wine media. We sell 85% of our wines through the direct-to-consumer channel and have a waitlist,10% for three-tier at this stage of evolution, and we hold back 5% as library wine for new customer acquisition or to participate in meaningful ways to give back.
The Sonoma Coast AVA is large in area but, not counting overlapping regions like Russian River Valley, only has a few thousand acres of grapevines—and it’s no wonder. Much of the region is rugged and not easily accessible. Its proximity to the Pacific Ocean’s fog and cool breezes limits the varieties that can be cultivated, but it proves to be an ideal environment for high quality Pinot Noir.
Since fog is a frequent fact of life here, as are heavy marine layers that sometimes bring rain, the best vineyards are wisely planted above the fog line, on picturesque ridges that capture enough sun to provide even ripening. That, with the overnight drop in temperature that reliably preserves acidity, results in fine expressions of Pinot Noir that often receive tremendous critic and consumer praise alike, and are often in high demand.