2015 Pinot Noir Rochioli Riverblock Vineyard, 35th Anniversary Edition
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The 2015 Pinot Noir Rochioli Riverblock Vineyard has a big, stemmy, yet beautifully fruited bouquet of ripe red and black fruits, smoked herbs, and graphite. Hitting the palate with a silky, elegant, seamless profile, this is classic, high-quality Russian River Pinot Noir that's going to benefit from 2-3 years of bottle age and cruise for a decade. This cuvée was fermented with 22% whole clusters and spent 17 months in 74% new French oak.
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Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW, Wine Advocate
Jeb Dunnuck
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The 2015 Pinot Noir Rochioli Riverblock Vineyard is medium ruby-purple in color with expressive notes of warm cranberries, red cherries and rhubarb pie with touches of bay leaves, lavender and tilled soil. Medium-bodied with a racy line cutting through the intense red fruit and herbal layers, it has a soft, silken frame and a long, earth-laced finish. 553 cases produced.
The 2015 Pinot Noir Rochioli Riverblock Vineyard offers plenty of fruit intensity and structure. Black cherry, smoke, gravel, licorice and menthol are all amped up in this decidedly virile, potent Pinot. I would give the 2015 a few years in bottle to allow the tannins to soften. The 2015 requires patience.
About the producer
Williams Selyem is an iconic Russian River Valley winery best known for its Pinot Noir. Producing restrained yet classically Californian expressions of the heartbreak grape (as well as a host of other wines), the property has gone from pioneer to one of the region’s standard-bearers.