2015 Williams Selyem Pinot Noir Eastside Road Neighbors
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The medium ruby-purple colored 2015 Pinot Noir Eastside Road Neighbors has a wonderfully spicy nose featuring notes of allspice, fenugreek, cloves and anise over a core of black cherries, warm red currants and pomegranate with a waft of fertile loam. Medium-bodied, soft, spicy and seductive, it offers beautiful poise and compelling depth. 865 cases produced.
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This multi-vineyard wine is sourced from hillside sites on the eastern edges of the appellation, including Foss and Calegari vineyards. Perfumed in clove and other baking spice tones, it has beautiful aromatics and ripe, firm tannins. The palate is marked by flavors of plum, rhubarb and cherry clafouti. — Virginie Boone
This is compositionally quite similar to the aromatics of the Weir though with a bit more spice and noticeably better depth. There is good punch and detail to the attractively textured medium-bodied flavors that possess solid depth on the markedly firm and unapologetically built-to-age finale that flashes a bit of youthful austerity. Patience required though this should be lovely in time. *Outstanding*
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.