Red

Stiling Vineyard Pinot Noir

Russian River Valley · Sonoma · United States

Fact sheet

roast duck · grilled mushrooms · lamb · aged cheeses

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201291 pts

Aromas of baked sour cherry tart precede pleasing wafts of violet and lavender. From a vineyard planted largely to a field selection of the Swan clone, it offers an expected earthiness and spiciness that intrigues around a core of balanced tension between fruit, acid and oak.
201187 pts

This bottling is curiously at odds with the winery's other 2011 single-vineyard Pinots. It's less ripe, with a mushroomy earthiness alongside flavors of raspberries and pomegranates. You might call that Burgundian, but it does cut down on the wine's opulence, and seems to limit…