This vintage is a purer, more fruit-driven style, offering lots of framboise and cherries as well as spring flowers and sappy herb-like aromas and flavors. These all carry over to the palate with a beautifully balanced, elegant mouthfeel, and a great finish. Scored 94 points Jeb Dunnuck; 93+ points Antonio Gallon's Vinous.
A collector's item: the final "In The Shed With Bob" Pinot. Wonderfully complete, it offers a gorgeous bouquet of red and black fruits, spiced herbs, forest floor, and flowers. It is a wine of depth and beautiful balance. Scored 95 points Jeb Dunnuck; 95 points Wine Enthusiast; 94 points Antonio Galloni's Vinous Very limited.
Great value! Miles above other Pinots in the same price category, this wine is a particularly wonderful vintage. It is deeply colored with aromas and flavors of strawberries and raspberries joined by anise and clove in mouth filling intensity.
The wine has a beautiful deep garnet color and shows aromas of spice and earth that transition nicely to berries of all sorts. 18 months barrel age in Francois Freres oak, 33% new, increases the wine's depth, texture, and interest.
NEW - Our First! Deserving of its own vineyard designation, this is a wine of depth with an expressive berry, spice and earth character from the Los Alamos wine region.
This beautifully balanced Pinot is rich yet elegant on the palate offering lots of ripe cherry and plum fruit as well as notes of spice, loamy earth, and underbrush. Another terrific value for those who like more graceful, seamless wines. Scored 93 points Antonio Galloni's Vinous; 92 points Jeb Dunnuck.
This single vineyard Pinot delivers depth. The 2017 is a rich, meaty red with a dense fruit character showing earthy, berry aromas joined by mouth-filling flavors of plum and bitter chocolate on the palate. Aged 18 months in french oak barrels, one third new. Scored 91 points & "Best Buy" from Wine & Spirits Mag.
This is a rich, deep Pinot of substance. Cola and boysenberry aromas are evident and joined by mouth-filling flavors of plum and bitter chocolate on the palate. Match with oak grilled chops.
A stunning, deeply colored Pinot with incredible complexity and depth that is classic Santa Maria Valley. The wine has a core of red and black berries, and offers loads of spice with touches of dried rose petals, licorice, cola, and sagebrush. Scored 93 points Antonio Galloni's Vinous; 93 points Wine Enthusiast Magazine.
Wine & Spirits Magazine - Year's Best Pinot Noirs: Score 93 points/BEST BUY, "This wine's smoky black-cherry fruit gets richer with air, lingering on a scent of mulled berries. The flavors remain smoky and dark, with a concentrated but elegant savor, quiet and refined structured for a long cellar life." Also scored 92 points Wine Enthusiast.
