2023 Fulcrum Pinot Noir Ferrington Vineyard, Anderson Valley
SF Wine Panel Score 95+ Points
Big, youthful and already intense, this brilliant Pinot Noir opens with a focused mix of dark cherry, dried Michigan cherry, black cherry, whortleberry, cranberry, sweet tobacco, mace, Campari and cherry pit scents. On the palate it proves gutsy-rich in body, with plush, deeply etched flavors, sturdy tannins, great length and fine focus. The finishing flavor push layers it’s core of cranberry, whortleberry and Bing cherry above supporting notes of baking spice, cedar, mace and coffee toffee. There are also vivid mineral undercurrents and there is ample tannic grip. Possibly four years or more from it’s full expression, it may well be a great wine in the making…and it may prove long-lived. 224 cases produced.
2023 Elk Cove Pinot Noir “La Boheme”, Yamhill-Carlton, Oregon
San Francisco Wine Panel Score 95+ Points
Young, gripping and notably complex, this is textbook Oregon Pinot Noir. The nose is a focused medley of dark cherry, black raspberry, cranberry sauce, mace, baking spice and deeply mineral scents. In the mouth, the fruit is deeper and the texture both gripping and tense, as the Bing cherry, raspberry, blood orange peel, panetone, mace and dried herbal flavors are counterpointed by crushed rock minerality and firming tannins.
2023 Three Sticks Pinot Noir Gap’s Crown Vineyard, Petaluma Gap
San Francisco Wine Panel Score 97 Points
The aromas of this vibrant Pinot Noir surge forth as a rich, youthfully bright, focused rendering of classic Gap's Crown fruit, with scents of boysenberry, Bing cherry, blood orange, mace and baking spice at center stage and saline mineral undercurrents in reserve.
2021 Patine Pinot Noir Sonoma Coast Cuvee
San Francisco Wine Panel Score 93+ Points
Notably rich and forthcoming yet fresh, the nose of this youthful bottling offers peppercorn and coriander seed. It is as zesty and forthcoming on the palate where the fruit is just this side of juicy and gently gripping tannins create an impression of density.