AJ | Deep, dark red-scarlet, though more translucent that its other four straight Willamette peers. Enticing, fresh-air and rain-shower cherry fruits take the lead, with something a little tarrier behind. Attractive. Pure, mid-length, with slightly more secondary and 'grown-up' fruit than those other straight Willamettes. Has a little bit of lean and green in there somewhere which adds to the general air of authenticity and Europhilia. Plenty of Bourgogne Rouge is not as good as this -- and in a flight of Bourgogne Rouge I'm not sure it would be spotted as alien. Delicious mealtime Pinot.Drink Dates: 2024 - 2029. 90
AR | A youthful medium ruby hue, this is pretty shy in aroma; you feel that there's some berry fruit lurking there but you want it to give you more to bring you in rather than hold you at bay, which this is doing; pinot noir does however come through when you taste, softly rounded in texture and quite juicy and approachable, even if the tannins are a little dry on the finish and the middle not quite as filled out as hoped for.Drink Dates: 2024 - 2026. 88
DW | Expressive and deceptively simple, this is light but rounded and pretty with darting fine acidity and sappy tannins; refreshing and prettily red-fruited in the finish, and with no little charm, if just lacking a little presence and flesh on the mid-palate.Drink Dates: 2024 - 2028. 89