Red

The Corners Pinot Noir

Anderson Valley · United States

Fact sheet

lamb · duck · roast pork · mushrooms · soft cheeses

201491 pts

A sweet-seeming, spicy and oaky aroma leads to equally spicy, exuberant oak flavors that join bright raspberry and cherry fruit flavors on the palate. It's full-bodied, lively and appropriately tannic in texture.
201390 pts

This big, dense wine is dark in color, with lush, late-picked aromas and flavors and very full body. Its power and oozing fruitiness make quite a contrast with more elegant styles, but there is no denying the appeal of all that jammy blackberry and blackcurrant character.
201293 pts

Very ripe, this offers sweet cherry and cinnamon aromas, equally enticing red cherry flavors plus great balance and purity. Full-bodied, it has silky texture and a long finish. A sweet oak influence is evident.
201190 pts

This bigger style of Pinot takes some time to open up, coming from the warmer end of the Anderson Valley, closer to Boonville, known as “The Corners.” With a thickness to the texture it grandiosely boasts of dark Mediterranean spice and leather, with a dark cherry fruit expressi…
201095 pts

This is a big Pinot Noir, with an explosive intensity of cherries and raspberries that is ripe and pure. Oak, of course, is there too, in the form of buttered, smoky toast. However, the wine isn't a mere fruit bomb. It has interesting nuances of earthy things, like mushrooms, ne…