In Texas we take breaks from red wine in chunks of 6 months. When you're out of practice, this is a great return ticket to Pinotland. Uncomplex, a reminder of the generosity and joy in a 56 degree pour.
Enveloping cherries and flecks of shaved cedar, bright. Fresh, vibrant, collected. — a month ago
On the tail end of its prime window, but still hitting. Like a mealy yellow apple, not quite browned. Has cider notes but plenty of acid in the mouth for vibrancy. Laser lemon cleaner with toasted oak becomes candied kumquat and sweet clementine.
Theres a lot of beautiful weight and texture and raw power that comes out to play as you let it warm. — 2 months ago
Where the cool kids and the somms can get along. Wildly balanced in a harmony we can all agree upon. Potpourri of fresh fleshy cherry, stems, full of green pine and acetone and crystalized Luden cough drops, residues of mint, meat and blood.
Texture like crushed velvet. Damn soft, subtle cush crunch. — 8 days ago
Color of dried orange peel or Hot Tamales. Beautiful little firecracker.
Smells oxidized, though crisp in the mouth. A duality of candy and fresh fruit, like biting into a caramel apple. Deep, and whole, and very appley indeed. Also dried apricots and butterscotch and fresh peach.
A deep, complex wine that could go the million and one directions of a human mind. — 3 months ago
Pours maroon, feels purple velvet.
Unashamed acetone, like the best nail polish and wild jungle juice. Dark plums and raspberries with a sweet midnight pruney core.
Sweet and tart and pulpy and a good ride if you raised your hand and signed the waiver. — 15 days ago
Got me thinking what was I was doing the day these grapes were picked...napping, punching play-dough, sipping Mott's, laughing apple juice breathe.
This is so good and so alive in '24. Sweet and balanced, enveloped in deep red delicious apples, a thick crisp skin, slathered head to toe in honey, a vein of brushed sage and crunchy topping of burnt popcorn kernels.
Wine really is the matador of time. — 2 months ago
Ely Cohn
Has some fight, bite, and spice. Dark persona, firmly structured with a core of sandy salinity, a little weight and tannic tension. Wild sour green strawberries, unripe raspberries, cedar lining.
Reserved, but punchy. — a day ago