Thin ruby with a wide garnet edge. Burnt tire and smokey graphite flow gently into grandma’s curtains and can’t deny the sweetness of fruit. Hosed-off horse-shit concrete and a springtime weedeater provide ample barnyard and welcome greenness. Simple in the mouth–straightforward easy fruit–very light, heat & bitter in the finish backs up the briar and throughout, dark candied cherry pervades.

2014 ZOTOVICH Pinot Noir Santa Rita Hills 13.9

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