Dark brooding garnet with a purple tinge of youthfulness visible and positively bounding from it. The nose a green asphalty tincture of fresh sapling grinds and mulled oak leaves, the berry contained angsty and ridged with sharp points of infantile grate. Quite closed-in: the afore-mentioned flows quite freely, but coaxing anything deeper, riper, or more mature requires plentiful air. Eventually, the apple-y cherry erodes its shell and appears in dripping splendor.

The taste nearly matches the bouquet: green Burgundian anger sheathed tightly in tannin creates bitter backgrounds for plentiful cranberry and plummy fruit. Pie-cherry–sharp and acidic–presents an almost crab-apple sensation over middle. This is a best-of-both-worlds Pinot: one Burg-bro will love but with enough California sunshine poking through to only get richer as it settles down, and the proof tells the story of both. Stash away as much as you can afford.

2020 MARITANA Pinot Noir Moonshine Ranch Russian River Valley Sonoma 13.1

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