Elemental Pinot Noir

Brilliant pale straw color with a green tinge. Explosive aromatics: lemon zest white nectarine geranium spearmint thyme and oyster shell. Great clarity and direct focus. Deep precise flavors. Mineral stream bed and crisp apple. Dry tangy and pulsating. Really opens up as it grows in the glass. Oatmeal and almond paste body and richness. Weighty broad deep savory finish rising grapefruit character. Our special 3.5-acre parcel of vines at Hyde Vineyard is now in its prime production/quality window at twenty two years of age. Its among the very earliest ripening blocks at the vineyard which typically means the vines are particularly well-balanced in harmonious equilibrium with their environment. Parcels such as this always seem to produce the finest most evocative wines. Its a more fruit-driven wine than the epically-mineral 2013 bottling but youll find its still drenched in river pebble intensity and saline/quinine freshness. The crop was healthy this year so we made