2016 Jennifer's Pinot Noir
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Red plums, mulberries, oyster shell, and even a hint of iron all emerge from the 2016 Pinot Noir Jennifer's, which comes from a cooler, marine-influenced site south of Sebastopol. Medium to full-bodied, straight, focused, and beautifully balanced as well as incredibly elegant, this is a remarkable Russian River Valley Pinot Noir that does everything right. I suspect a year or two of bottle age will do it well, and it should evolve for over a decade.
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Jeb Dunnuck
Antonio Galloni, Vinous
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The 2016 Pinot Noir Jennifer's offers an intriguing combination of super-ripe red fruit and also bright acids that give the wine its distinctive feel. Succulent red cherry, hard candy, wild flowers and bright, piercing acids give the Jennifer's its distinctive personality and feel.
Medium ruby-purple colored, the 2016 Hartford Court Pinot Noir Jennifer’s sashays out of the glass with heart-stopping violets and lilacs over a core of redcurrants, Bing cherries, mulberries and black raspberries plus wafts of underbrush, spice box, black tea and black pepper. Medium to full-bodied, the palate is packed with spice and earth layers, framed by firm, fine-grained tannins and finishing very long and mineral-laced. 348 cases produced.