4/29/2018 - Frank Murray III wrote:

Funny, as I gifted this bottle and the owner ended up sharing it back with me so it made a full circle. Have had several of these now during 2018 and I have a pretty strong sense of the wine, for sure. Aromatics of what I oddly called brown spices, something I would usually scrawl down for the oak imprint on Pinot Noir so I guess think of it as oak here. Pineapple and some vanilla, so some of that seductiveness again similar to recent bottles, yet the lemon underneath it that is what I believe will carry the wine and later when the oak sheds off result in a cool bottle of Chard. Drink now if you want that flash or let it age to perhaps allow the wine to get where I think it will head.