2021 Chanin Pinot Noir Los Alamos Vineyard
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The 2021 Pinot Noir Los Alamos Vineyard has alluring, pure aromas of cranberry sauce, oolong tea leaves and tobacco, offering up something new with each return to the glass. The medium-bodied palate features crunchy fruit and finely chalky tannins, and its vibrant acidity highlights a fan of spicy accents on the finish.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Jeb Dunnuck
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The 2021 Pinot Noir Los Alamos Vineyard is gracious and effusive, as wines from this site tend to be. Crushed flowers, bright red-toned fruit, cedar, tobacco and dried flowers all grace this refined, nuanced Pinot. Silky tannins wrap it all together. This is such a pretty wine.
From sandy soils north of Sta. Rita Hills, the 2021 Pinot Noir Los Alamos Vineyard has a clean, up-front, fruit-driven nose of ripe strawberries, framboise, leafy herbs, and flowers. This carries to a medium-bodied, round, supple, seamless Pinot Noir with gorgeous purity of fruit, no hard edges, and outstanding length. It shows the supple, elegant, incredibly well-balanced style of the vintage and is already impossible to resist. This was 88% destemmed and spent 16 months in just 10% new French oak.
775 cases made. Due for release September 2023. Smells of cranberry and raspberry fruit. Bright, silky flavours of cranberry and raspberry fruit are shot through with citrus peel and a hint of flowers. Faint tannins, excellent acidity. Hints of sour cherry linger in the finish with a touch of oak. Delicious. (AY)