2023 Nid Tisse Pinot Noir Radian Vineyard, Santa Rita Hills
San Francisco Wine Panel Score 97 Points
2023 was a brilliant vintage for this celebrated property and this bottling, it clearly still young, already captures the vineyard’s character with precision. The aromas are a focused mix of dark cherry, boysenberry and whortleberry fruit that gains clarity from sharp mineral undercurrents and further richness from baking spice and other oak-derived notes. It is bright, deep and shows fine concentration on the palate, where well-defined flavors of black cherry, sour dark cherry, boysenberry, mace, baking spice and firming minerality carry through a very long, youthful finish. Delicious dinner wine already, it is sure to evolve brilliantly over the next three years and likely beyond. 127 cases produced.