Medium garnet, bricking hard. Effusive pencil-eraser and new tire nose peels off layers of almost-flabby fruit stuffed full of cinnamon and slight alcohol. In the mouth, round full dried-fruit and alcohol attack the tongue, with a glycerin vacancy dolled up with sweet bitters. Despite the tourist-appeal, it would be pretty hard to do better for 30 bucks. One of the 2014? WS Top 100 WOTY.
2012 PALI WINE COMPANY Pinot Noir Huntington Santa Barbara Co. 14.7
Stephen McConnell 