Red

Pinot Noir

Russian River Valley · Sonoma · United States

Fact sheet

pork · lamb · beef · grilled salmon

201588 pts

This tart, plush and broadly appealing wine is fruit-forward and rounded with red cherry, cola and vanilla flavors.
200987 pts

A pretty good Pinot Noir, not quite up there with J's vineyard-designated bottlings, but it's not as expensive. With brisk acidity and black cherry, cola and cedar flavors, it's made for drinking now.
200887 pts

Pretty and polished, an elegant, lighter style Pinot Noir to drink now with rich pork, lamb and beef dishes or grilled salmon. It's silky and satiny, with pleasant wild strawberry, cherry, red currant, licorice, cola and cedar flavors.
200794 pts

An enormously elegant, complex Pinot Noir that changes endlessly in the glass and is a joy to drink. Completely dry, and marked by silky tannins, it shows complicated cherry, rhubarb, pomegranate, cola, orange tea and sandalwood flavors. First class. Best now and for the next fo…
200687 pts

Sturdy and hard in tannins, brisk in acids, this Pinot will benefit from a year or so in bottle. It's extremely dry, with earthy, balsam and mushroom-inspired flavors of blackberries, black cherries and cola.