DuMOL Finn Pinot Noir 2015
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Constantly evolving aromatics reveal rose petals, wintergreen, sassafras, and cedar among waves of ripe red, blue, and black fruits. Natural density on the palate contributes verve, precision, and focus to the layered, enveloping flavors. Lilac, Asian spice, truffle, and blackcurrant unfold with a deft balance between lively acidity and broad tannin. The chewy mid-palate is deeply-textured yet poised and dynamic. Pine needle freshness and tobacco leaf complexity on the long resonating finish — just beautiful.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Pinot Noir Finn is a blend of Occidental Road and DuMOL Estate vineyards. Medium ruby-purple in color, the 2015 Pinot Noir Finn offers evocative notes of Bing cherries, fresh raspberries, wild blueberries and mulberries with touches of fragrant soil, underbrush, wild thyme and rose hip tea. Medium to full-bodied and built like a brick house in the mouth with very firm, ripe grainy tannins and fantastic freshness, it finishes very long and earthy. This should cellar gracefully over the next 18-20 years.
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Jeb Dunnuck
The flagship 2015 Pinot Noir Finn has more tannin as well as density. Terrific notes of dried flowers, red currants, menthol, and earth, medium to full body, a layered, concentrated mid-palate, and a great, great finish all define this seriously good Russian River Pinot Noir. It’s one of the tighter, more backward 2015s from Andy Smith, but it’s packed with potential. Give it another 2-3 years, and it’s capable of keeping for over a decade.
Rating: 95+
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Respect for the land
DuMOL is a “vineyard up” winery with a fully integrated approach to winegrowing and winemaking. DuMOL planted its high-density estate vineyards and has farmed many of California’s most renowned vineyards for more than two decades.
Commitment to craft
DuMOL sticks to what works and is focused on the fundamentals, finding inspiration in master, visionary producers around the world as DuMOL continually hones its craft—never imitating, ever refining.
Connected on a personal level
This is a project that comes from who the DuMOL team is and what they love. A deep connection is paramount: to the land, the wines, and the customers.
Heritage and experience
Founded in 1996, DuMOL is a latter-day pioneer in the Russian River Valley. Winemaker, Viticulturist and Partner, Andy Smith, farmed the region for nearly a decade before joining in 1999, and Associate Winemakers Julie Cooper and Jenna Davis, and Cellar Master Jaime Eufracio, have over 40 years combined experience at DuMOL.
While the Russian River Valley is a large appellation with multiple climate zones and soil types, it is best known for cool-climate varieties, with Pinot Noir as the most celebrated. The grapes benefit from a reliable late afternoon flow of Pacific Ocean fog through the Petaluma Gap and along the Russian River Valley that ensures slow and steady ripening and the preservation of grape acidity. Today many of California’s most highly regarded Pinot Noir vineyards are in the Russian River Valley, along with its sub-appellation, Green Valley.
Historically Russian River Valley Pinot Noirs had bright red fruit and delicate earthy, mineral notes. But changes in viticultural and winemaking practices have led to stylistic changes in some of the region’s wines. Adjustments to canopy management, among other techniques, have resulted in riper fruit and bolder wines as well. These show flavors of black cherry, blackberry, cola, spice and darker, loamy earth tones, accenting traditional Pinot Noir notes of strawberry, raspberry and light cherry.