Tasting at the winery. Nicely floral with red berry throughout. Soft and easy with very good length and brightness for its level and price.

Tasting at the winery. Floral with spice hints and bright red berry. Similar flavors with broader cross-section of red fruit. Faint bitter hint on the finish.

Black and red cherry aromas and flavors with good structure and weight. Starts out slightly firm, giving it a one dimensional character, but then expanding and opening on long finish, just hinting at its potential. Cellar. Upside.

Tasting at winery. Elegant, forward and nicely spiced. All red, forward and quite accessible.

Tasting at the winery. Red and black cherry with clearly charming spice. Ever-so-slightly firm and backward, but lots of everything good here. Needs time.

Tasting at the winery. Soft and elegant red cherry with moderate weight and length, good+ balance. Good young.

Lots of cherry aromas and flavors with a very meaty character. Very good length and weight, slightly firm middle and finish. Needs time.

Tasting at winery. Reductive start with
Lots and lots of black fruit.

Tasting at the winery. Meaty black fruit with good concentration. Bit of SO2 to start, quickly dissipated. Expanding finish. Best on finish.

Tasting at the winery. Wonderful aromas show spice, pure red fruit and earth hints. Similar flavors, but less forthcoming and more backward. Rich finish hints at good potential. Needs time.

Tasting at the winery. Earth, spice and red fruit in wonderful balance. Very good right now.

Rich, ripe red and black cherry with some sweet spice and a hint of new oak that will benefit from more cellar time. Very good weight to start, with good length that falls off slightly at the finish. This will improve with age, better 2022-.

Tasting at the winery. Fun, light, easy, perhaps slightly thin.

Tasting at the winery. Lots of black cherry throughout with charming nose showing a trace of sausage. Similar flavors, just less forward today, with meaty spice in the middle and a slightly backward finish. I suspect a few years in the cellar have been kind to this wine, and a few more years will help further.

Tasting at the winery. Fleshy apple and pear with ginger, butter and honeycomb. Surprised to hear this is only 50% composed of wine that finished ML, given its richness. Best to drink young.

Tasting at the winery. 2016 disgorgement. Very impressive. Mostly Chardonnay, seems so Chardonnay in its precision and backbone. Very good breadth, length and mousse. Slightly earthy and bready, but not in a way that dominates the flavors. Very good now.

Tasting at the winery. Starts out slightly fat and rich with some cola notes, then finishes more reserved and beckoning with good acidity and textural elegance. Probably better in another year or three.

Tasting at the winery. Black cherry start-to-finish with great spice and an alluring nose, slightly less overt flavors. A well done use of whole cluster. Better to cellar a little more.

Tasting at the winery. Red fruit throughout. This starts out fun and forward, but sneaky structure emerges, making this engaging and interesting g by the finish. Very good potential. Better/ more complete than the 2015 tasted a week+ ago.

Tasting at the winery. Intensely floral start with very ripe fruit, slightly candied, slightly candies. Very good concentration, but warm at finish. Drink young. Stolpman fruit.

Tasting at the winery. All red fruit start-to-finish with some earth and very good textures. Still wound slightly tight, better 2020-.

Tasting at the winery. Cross section of red and black cherry comes across more ripe and concentrated vs Ceras, less delicate or textured. Very good length, slightly firm finish for now.

Tasting at the winery. Lots of cherry with even more baking spice. Intriguing and unfolding, this seems to tell you it’s forward and simply fun, but layers in the background hint at more complex enjoyment as this ages.

Tasting at the winery. Boysenberry and blackberry jam with sweet spice and liqueur and lots of tannins, albeit in the elegant side. Needs time. Upside as the sweetness lessens.

Tasting at the winery. 13/14 blend. Black and meaty fruit with some olive tapenade. Long, brooding start, then brighter and uplifting finish. Very mountain fruit with the lifting acidity. 91-92+ point potential.

Tasting at the winery. Intensely floral with ripe apple and good+ depth and balance, good length. Very good value wine.

Tasting at the winery. Bright and fresh with good acidity and berry notes start-to-finish.

Tasting at the winery. Ripe red fruits with lush, fatter start, softer and more elegant finish. Moderate weight and depth.

Tasting at the winery. Bright red fruit, overall good brightness, good balance. Good now.

Tasting at the winery. Roses with red berry and cherry start-to-finish. Good depth, background spice and a long, expanding finish. Need time.

Tasting at the winery. Fun and berry driven with moderate depth and length. Fun, easy.

Tasting at the winery. Enjoyable for near term with good fleshy fruit and weight. Finishes a hint warmer and shorter than I’d prefer, but still fun.

Tasting at the winery. Bright red fruit with charming balance. Simple, easy, fun. A very good value Pinot Noir for near term enjoyment.

Tasting at the winery. Tough to fully get past the ripeness, but clearly enough concentration and structure to hold everything together. Plenty of black and red cherry throughout. Good length.

Tasting at the winery. Very ripe red cherry with good structure throughout, but not quite the depth of Co rages that give more complexity. Enjoy young.

Tasting at the winery. Saignee style. Rich berry throughout, very good for its level and price.

Tasting at the winery. Starts out rich and slightly fat. Apple and pear throughout, getting lean and notably precise toward finish. Good.

Tasting at the winery. A real step up vs the other Chardonnay. Same orchard fruit start-to-finish, but longer and texturally much more complete and interesting.

Tasting at the winery. Balanced red cherry and berry with good depth and weight. Intense ripeness of the vintage well hidden, while still forward and friendly. Upside from here.

Tasting at the winery. Fun cross-section if red and black cherry with savory spice and good acidity coming through at the finish. Very good length.

Tasting at the winery. Bright red fruit with good depth, also fresh for the vintage’s heat. Good depth and length.

Tasting at the winery. Red berries with lots of nuance already. Very good length and textures with an iron, minerally character I really enjoy.

Tasting at the winery. All red, earthy and slightly dirty, in all the best ways. Drink young.

Tasting at the winery. Pop and pour. Rich and almost voluptuous. Lots of black and red cherry with almost sweet spice. Very fun and long. Intriguing.

Tasting at the winery. Cross-section of apple aromas and flavors with good depth, very good balance.

Tasting at the winery. Lean and so elegant in a manner rarely seen in US Chardonnay, in fact below 13% alcohol. Lot so apple and pear throughout with engaging acidity, finishing with some ripe lemon and candied lemon peel. Could pass for a good Puligny.

Tasted at the winery. Bright red fruit with slightly sweet spice that adds hints of nuance to a ripe wine. Certainly good for entry-level in the ripe vintage.

Tasting at the winery. Ripe and fleshy with good concentration and big dollop of sweetness, but enough structure to maintain some reserve and restraint. Still quite big.

Tasting at the winery. More interesting and nuanced flavors vs X-Novo just tasted, but without the same concentration. Good potential for a young vineyard.

Tasting at the winery. Good weight and concentration with fleshy forward fruit to start, then structure coming through middle to end. Lots of good components here - better than the two 2015s just tasted - but not yet fully integrated. Interesting and good+ potential.

Tasting at the winery. Opulent start with cleaner, crisper middle. Lots of ripe fruit with good weight.

Tasting at the winery. Floral start with elegantly styled black fruit. Moderate weight and good mineral-esque textures. Good.

Tasting at the winery. Incredibly bright red cherry and berry that manages to finish with a lush, luxurious character. Finessed finish.

Tasting at the winery. Surprisingly light color for BF. Intensely ripe with both sweet and savory spice. Seems simple to start, but there is an intriguing and lingering finish. Cellar at least a couple of years, best 2020-2026. 91+ point potential.

Tasting at the winery. Extremely ripe, perhaps flabby, but maybe served too warm?

Tasting at the winery. Light color, elegant red cherry and berry throughout. Forward start, moderate weight easily appreciated, texturally interesting finish. G+ medium-term potential.

Tasting at the winery. Ultra ripe with so much black fruit that I find slightly too warm all the way from start-to-finish.

Tasting at the winery. To me, a clear step up from Danielle Laurent, but still too ripe and barely balance. Good concentration, but that isn’t quite enough here.

Tasting at the winery. Black fruit with fine balance and more of the classic, older world style I expected from this producer. Black currant and cherry with good balance and energy throughout. Also best to enjoy young.