2017 Williams Selyem Pinot Noir Eastside Road Neighbors
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The 2017 Pinot Noir Eastside Road Neighbors has a pale to medium ruby-purple color and is youthfully shy, slowly offering scents of raspberry preserves, red and black cherries and touches of cured meats, peppercorn, autumn leaves, dried rose petal and potpourri. It's light to medium-bodied, rounded and silky with slowly evolving earth and spice layers, a sturdy frame of grainy tannins and great freshness, finishing long with baking spice touches. This is very youthfully coiled, and my score may look conservative a year from now. 1,289 cases produced.
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James Suckling
Antonio Galloni, Vinous
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This blend of four different vineyards has plenty of fragrance and an abundance of red cherries with a sappy edge from whole clusters (25%). The depth of ripe fruit here is stunning and thereâs a sleek, plush, velvety feel to the super fleshy red and darker cherries. Purely delicious, gently complex and very drinkable now.
The 2017 Pinot Noir Eastside Road Neighbors is wonderfully deep and expressive, with striking tonalities of ripe dark red/purplish fruit, spice, leather and earthiness. In this range, the Eastside Road Neighbors is distinguished by its baritone voice and resonance, all delivered in a highly appealing, mid-weight style. This plump, juicy Pinot offers considerable near and medium term appeal.
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.