Peter Michael Le Caprice Pinot Noir 2021
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2021 Pinot Noir Le Caprice has especially pure, layered aromas: cranberry sauce opens to notions of tobacco leaves, fennel, bright pops of orange peel and alluring earth and Angostura undertones. The light-bodied palate is silky and seamless with ethereal strawberry and raspberry flavors and botanical undertones that draw you back to the glass. Elegant and detailed, it's lovely straight from the bottle yet will develop savory complexity as it matures over the next 15+ years.
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James Suckling
Intense umami character on the nose with ripe strawberries, dried seaweed, oyster shells, iron, bark and oranges. Full-bodied and very round and juicy, with lots of fruit and a creamy and round tannin texture. Fresh and peachy at the end. A generous, well-framed young pinot noir.
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Thin-skinned, finicky and temperamental, Pinot Noir is also one of the most rewarding grapes to grow and remains a labor of love for some of the greatest vignerons in Burgundy. Fairly adaptable but highly reflective of the environment in which it is grown, Pinot Noir prefers a cool climate and requires low yields to achieve high quality. Outside of France, outstanding examples come from in Oregon, California and throughout specific locations in wine-producing world. Somm Secret—André Tchelistcheff, California’s most influential post-Prohibition winemaker decidedly stayed away from the grape, claiming “God made Cabernet. The Devil made Pinot Noir.”
On the far western edge of the larger Sonoma Coast appellation, the Fort Ross-Seaview AVA hugs right up against the Pacific coast. Vineyards, planted at rugged elevations between 920 to 1,800 feet, occupy only two percent of the total land in the AVA. Fort Ross-Seaview growers believe that the region boasts an ideal mix of sunshine, cool air and beneficial stress for producing high quality Chardonnay and Pinot noir.