there's a sweet fruit and pastry quality to this wine that's reminiscent of a cherry tart, with its vanilla, brown sugar, cinnamon and smoky buttery pie crust flavors. it's very delicious but also brilliantly structured as a wine, with fine tannins and a sunburst of citrusy acids. one of the best carneros pinots of the vintage, it will provide pleasurable drinking now–2013 at the least.
Seven's Bench