Dog Point Vineyard, Pinot Noir Vintage:2011

Dog Point Vineyard, Pinot Noir Vintage:2011The boys at Dog Point have made a beautifully resolved pinot here, offering handsomely ripe cherry fruit and oak that adds plenty but doesn't intrude. The savory spice and sweetly meaty notes are alluring. The palate has plenty of supple flesh at its core, with fine, sweeping tannins that brush through smoothly and a freshness that drives the finish. Concentrated and elegant. Drink now.

this amazing Gewurztraminer already displays not just prodigious length and profundity of flavor saline chalky mineral suggestions and deep smoked meat pungency lending a darker side to its performance but elegance

exotic spices and plums

Once again there is solid intensity to the even finer medium weight flavors that also exhibit good minerality on the sleek

and a cocktail of black fruits

37 ha parcel)

I find the 2017 rendition of this wine to be in a pretty closed-up state but vigorous aeration brings out suave

The more refined

with a medicinal note of menthol

but the wine tastes fresher on the palate

Balanced and approachable now

Old-vine magic

There is excellent volume and concentration to the tautly muscular and powerful flavors that possess fine punch to the beautifully well-balanced and persistent finish