Crystal-clear medium garnet with wide garnet edges with full pour and thinnish almost brown in shallow pours.  The lushest, most intense Pinot bouquet I have had this year.  Ripe and concentrated, packed with pretty floral and exquisite perfume.  Big briar with touches of grassiness and petrol.  Elegant Versace layered with supple vegetal nuances and the background acidity and tannin extremely visible.  Just enough barnyard against sweet oak to put this in a category with some of the plushest versions of this grape but without the cloying over-extracted Syrah-ish tarriness and jammy fruit most find mandatory to include.  It is very hard to believe this entry-level bottling is headed into 10 years.  Nowhere are any of the annoying toasted-almond issues many Pinots develop at this age.  Heady but subdued, gamy but spicy, chewy but liquid–everywhere you look this wine just WINS on elegance and balance.  One of those wines the astonishing thinness defies the concentration.  Pure world-class Pinot Noir.  In the mouth, a slight heat reminds of youth while beautiful, concentrated pure-Pinot fruit play against crisp acidity and tannins slowly growing and fading long into the bright finish.  The peppery burn of fruit coats the mouth and outlasts the tannin.  I do not have words to describe a more perfect Pinot.  14-2   ♦♦♦