Alesia Santa Cruz Mountains Pinot Noir

If you have it, drink it. Fruit is fading.

Very nice but with a little spicy edge to the fruit. Better with decanting time.

Always a great wine!

Red candied cherry, pomegranate, cranberry, green raspberry, slight butter burnt tea.

Dry fruit forward. Little tobacco. Delicate And light

Red fruit, baking spice, forest floor. Nice acidity. Good drinking window.

I tasted the Alesia Anderson Valley bottling of the same vintage a while back and was very impressed. This might be better, leaning more savory and mineral, with cooler mountain tension.

The fruit has mellowed with age into deeper red tones, framed by forest floor, crushed rock, and a subtle herbal edge. The palate remains lively with fresh acidity carrying the medium body with poise. A long, precise finish.

Rhys rips with this Pinot noir.

Yum

Vanilla cherry on nose, light vanilla spice and floral honey on taste, mid palate subtle pepper with light finish; light tannin at end, balanced