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Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - This was a bit of a strange one but really grew on me over the course of the evening. Definitely pretty tough, dense, and austere for the region, but that's not to say it's imbalanced, just a little challenging.

The nose is especially tense, a little tiny bit of reduction but that's not the main vibe- it's more about a very very dark, even dank kind of bitter black licorice, damp stone, menthol, even slightly rubbery tone. The fruit is there on the nose, but it's buried deep beneath. Tiny little pops of salty raspberry, incredibly laced with minerals and fairly shy.

The palate was perhaps one of the clearest examples of how the nose and palate can differ in a wine; here the fruit was dramatically more present, with a slow, long bloom of beautiful pure black cherry expanding across the tongue. It was still probably one of the most "minerally" reds I've tried in general, that elusive but distinct kind of cooling damp stone and salty accent kind of vibe. Really delicious, although the structure was also surprisingly harsh, pretty gritty and raw for any Pinot.

Unique and ultimately successful, more so than the others I've tried that were done in a *somewhat* similar style. In the end, I've had much better for the price, but if you're looking for a seriously "minerally" red, this is definitely a good example of what that means for me.

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