2021 Williams Selyem Pinot Noir Westside Road Neighbors
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Fruit sourced from Allen, Bacigalupi, Bucher, Flax, Rochioli Riverblock, and Williams Selyem Estate – all along the Westside Road. Aged for 15 months in 63% new, 37% one-year-old French oak. pH 3.54, TA 5.7 g/l. Pale ruby in colour, with a purple hue. Quiet, dusty nose with subtle black cherry. The palate packs a punch with toast and cola. More powerful than the Eastside bottling – gentler acidity and a silky texture to the building tannin. Ageworthy. Sappiness to the finish. With each sip, the wine seems to build layers of flavour and silky tannin. (SCJ)
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Jancis Robinson MW
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A transparent ruby, the 2021 Pinot Noir Westside Road Neighbors is perfumed with potpourri, fresh red cherry, and fresh herbs and brings a good deal of brightness and lift from this site. More linear in its feel, on the palate it’s vibrant with fresh acidity, fine tannins, and notes of cranberry cocktail, fresh spices, and dusty earth, and it has fantastic energy throughout. Drink 2025-2040.
The 2021 Pinot Noir Westside Road Neighbors is tremendously perfumed and layered this vintage. Matured in 63% new oak for 15 months, it takes significant time in the glass to unfurl its wild berry fruit, then gains in intensity, offering streaks of blood orange, tobacco, licorice and hibiscus. The palate is seamless and velvety, packed to the brim with floral flavors, and its energetic acidity and arresting expression call you back to the glass again and again. 2,059 cases were produced.
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.