Winemaker Notes
Intense and brilliant ruby red. The bouquet is rich, fine notes of berries and sour cherries, seductive. Harmoniously round and soft, compact, elegant with rich berry fruit.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Spectator
A deftly knit Pinot, this is bright and graceful in form, yet expands beautifully and shows good focus on the palate. Reveals warm spice and tea rose accents on the nose, transitioning to macerated cherry, red licorice and dried thyme on the palate. The finish is defined by fine-grained tannins and a lingering streak of spicy minerality. Drink now through 2030.
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James Suckling
Fragrant notes of rose hips, lavender, cinnamon, spiced cherries and cremini mushrooms. Polished and gently toasty, with a medium body, silky and present tannins, and pretty sweet spices at the end. Drink now or hold.
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Wine Enthusiast
This Pinot Noir opens with aromas of violet and rose that then give way to vibrant cherry and wild strawberry notes dusted in sweet baking spices and hints of green tea. The palate is structured with fine tannins from the oak aging and flavors of anise, clove and vanilla that work in concert with the wild berry notes that eventually open up to fresh earth notes.
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.”
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