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Gregory Dal Piaz's Review:

At first the nose seems dominate by oak influence with vanilla and spice tones but with time the earthy fruit begins to rise from the glass. Earthy and stemmy with lots of cola and root beer, this lacks some focus. Very fresh feeling with a natural quality to the fruit supported by big structural elements, the palate impression of this wine is certainly different than what the nose promises. Wild berry tones on the palate are a touch gamy and sauvage with earth and spices tones playing supporting roles. This pushes through with a bright and assertively refreshing finish. Give it another year though it's excellent today. 90pt

Gregory Dal Piaz's Review:

Gorgeous notes of leaves, stems, and moist soil push back against the nicely judged oak giving the wonderfully ripe juniper tinged, wild berry quality that evolves in the glass. This is just classic Sonoma Pinot noir with a rich mouth feel, a touch of glycerin adding that round, luxurious feel, yet it offers wild cherry flavors spiced with mint and oak that yields to a return of the lovely herbals, vegetal top notes of the nose before fading into a gently vanilla tinged and slightly exotically fruited finish. 91pts

Gregory Dal Piaz's Review:

Soil, earth, prosciutto and stemmy pinot fruit greet the nose with an accent of well-integrated wood spice. Nice acids in balance with the pure fruit. This has a lovely, unforced feel with dark raspberry and cherry tone to the fresh fruit. There are nice complicating notes of herb, earth and stem with nice soil tones on the moderately long finish. A stylish and well put together Pinot that works as a cocktail wine and at the dinner table. 88pts

Gregory Dal Piaz's Review:

Rather oaky on the nose with candied medicinal tones and notes of roasted root vegetables that are earthy and sweet. This pulls itself together well adding a dried porcini tone and notes of cigar smoke. Moderately rich and soft on the palate this has some angular tannins on the mid-palate that add texture to the juicy, somewhat matte black raspberry toned fruits. The finish gains a green, herbal topnote that creates some separation between the ripe fruit and soft texture allowing this to gain some volume in the mouth. A bit chunky but with a good flavor profile and nice structure. 87pts

Gregory Dal Piaz's Review:

Write your review here, and rate the wine from 1 to 5 glasses above.This smells light and gentle with a touch of cola over earthy, slightly brothy, and thus savory, dried cherry fruit. This is certainly a lightweight wine but it has really Pinot typicity with good acids and soft, integrated tannins that support that same dried cherry fruit tone on the nose. The fruit pops nicely on the finish, which has a nice tea tone, and while certainly not a powerhouse this offers up some convincing Pinot drinking. The finish is a bit diffuse but this is very nice pinot. 88pts

Gregory Dal Piaz's Review:

Smoky and reduced on the nose. With air this opens to reveal notes of mineral, eggshell, clay and smoldering herbs over a core of meat, dark, concentrated fruit, smelling a bit like veal reduction. In the mouth this is dense and seamless and manages to combine that rich, ripe mouthfeel with a dense, yet fresh array of fruit flavors. This is decidedly dark, dried raspberry and cherry fruited with a flush of herbs and golden apple tones that rises above the intense fruit on the mid-palate. The finish could use a little more length though it's primarily fruit tannins that are cutting it short. With time this develops real cut and definition on the finish. A great effort that captures the perfectly ripe fruit.93pts

Gregory Dal Piaz's Review:

Hay, birds nest, so soft and subtle it's seductive with a core of warm raspberry coulis framed by gentle suggestions of baking spice and lovely notes of quinine, porcini, drying flowers an old library, and history, This wine smells of history. It's light and bright with plenty of acid and tannins that hold up the diaphanous band of raspberry fruit gently flecked with mushroom and spice tones. The structure bullies your palate on the backend a bit but the fruit sneaks under and out with a wild strawberry and violet pastille quality that is fruity and delightfully savory. 94pts

Gregory Dal Piaz's Review:

Cola and sassafras on the nose with a cool, deep quality to the fruit that draws you in the glass to discover the notes of perfumed wood, crayon, sand, and coco butter. This is very bright up front with a lovely leafy quality that serve to draw out the deep, dark black raspberry with it touch of coffee grinds and bitter earth component that add another layer of contrast This finishes with very fine bitter cherry fruit and some small but stiff tannins that add a fine touch of mouthgrab. There's a lot going on here and this is still young but it show's incredible poise on the palate. 93pts

Gregory Dal Piaz's Review:

Gorgeous nose, full of women's perfume, underbrush, nutmeg, earth, sapwood, wild berries, and licorice root with wonderful intensity. On entry this is pretty big and a touch matte like a sandwich of acid with fruit serving as the bread. It's packed with succulent fruit gently edged with spicy cinnamon and nutmeg tones though the fruit gently release the acid adding lift to the mineral laden wild raspberry fruit on the mid-palate. This needs another year to really open up but has all the ingredients to be a stunner. It ends with a subtle persistence, like the waves on the bay continuously grinding ashore. 94pts

Gregory Dal Piaz's Review:

This actually has some ass in the glass with a lovely, initial feral note that is joined by notes of sweet gum, wild raspberry, jasmine, and subtle oak. Really slinky on entry this glides into the mouth with the weight of a feather. It's got lovely cherry pit and black raspberry fruit tones on the palate but with a lovely transparency that allows the wonderful, aromatic forest floor elements of the wine to percolate up in the mouth. The finish is subtle but fairly spicy with good length and fine balance though it does end with a little heat. 91pts