2018 Vintage Wines
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This low-ABV but delicious wine paints a promising picture for future vintages of Project M Chardonnay. Buttery, lemony flavors are focused on apple and white peach fruit, with a touch of thyme adding welcome herbal highlights.
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Lovely fruit is the mainstay here, a tangy mix of blueberry, blackberry and black cherry in equal proportions. The fruit is set nicely against polished but unintrusive tannins, and a hint of black olive permeates the finish. All in all, it is a most compelling and delicious wine.
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This has terrific concentration and purity with aromas and flavors of dark cherries and blackberries, delivered in a pure yet complex mode with nuances of leaves and sappy forest wood. The tannins are lithe and fresh. There’s plenty to like here already, but more to come in the next couple of years. Drink or hold.
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Deep, shimmering red. Black raspberry, cherry and pungent floral qualities on the fragrant, spice-tinged nose. Fleshy and seamless in texture, offers palate-coating red/dark berry, bitter cherry and spicecake flavors that take on a hint of smokiness with air. Plays richness off of energy with a smooth hand. Finishes very long and floral, with supple tannins making a late appearance.
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Saturated crimson. A highly aromatic bouquet evokes ripe red fruits, incense and Asian spices, along with building mineral and floral overtones. Juicy and expansive on the palate, offering alluringly sweet raspberry and cherry preserve, floral pastille and spicecake flavors that deepen steadily with air. Conveys a suave blend of power and elegance and finishes with harmonious tannins, superb clarity, and strong, floral-driven persistence.
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A special art label distinguishes this cuvée, which is a tribute to family members who have passed away. The flavors are well balanced and proportionate, with tart berries, citrus, sweet spices and a hint of gingerbread. The overall subtlety invites contemplation.
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This makes a savory impression with assertive blackberries and dark cherries on offer, as well as violets and cedar. It’s all very tightly set for now. The palate follows suit with impressively intense dark cherries and blackberries, bound in firm, slender and taut tannins. Powerful and distinctive pinot here – a real vin de garde. Try from 2023.
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Deep, shimmering scarlet. Spice-tinged raspberry and cherry aromas are complicated by suggestions of succulent herbs and candied flowers. Appealingly sweet and fleshy on the palate, offering nicely concentrated red and dark berry and rose pastille flavors complemented by hints of cola and candied licorice. Shows very good clarity and spicy thrust on the finish, which delivers solid punch, harmonious tannins and impressive, floral-driven persistence.
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In the eastern slopes of the Coast Range, this vineyard brings firm, yet supple fruit flavors of wild blackberries, with ample highlights of stem and savory herbs. The balance is spot-on, and the tannins, though a bit stiff, are ripe with black-tea astringency.
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Intensely aromatic, this leads you in with rich scents of black fruits. Ripe flavors follow, woven through with pretty spices and a thread of cotton candy. The wine is not candied in a bad way, but you may notice a lemon-drop sweetness to the acids. It's a subtle, lengthy, and compelling wine, with medium-term aging potential.
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Vivid ruby-red. Ripe cherry, raspberry, exotic spices and a hint of potpourri on the smoke-tinged nose. Juicy and expansive on the palate, offers bitter cherry, red berry, allspice and mocha flavors that are braced by a spine of minerality and sharpened by building spiciness. Fine-grained tannins add shape and subtle grip to a very long, penetrating finish that features a lingering floral pastille quality.
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A very complete style of pinot that offers complex aromas of violets, red cherries, forest wood, leaves and earth, as well as some blue-fruit notes. The palate’s well-rounded shape cradles fresh red cherries, brown spices and red to dark berries in fine tannins, which fan out the finish in fresh, detailed style. Drink or hold.
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Limpid magenta. A highly perfumed bouquet evokes ripe red fruits, incense, cola and potpourri, and a smoky mineral nuance emerges with air. Sweet and focused on the palate, offering lively raspberry, cherry cola and spicecake flavors and a discreet vanilla accent. Shows very good clarity and spicy lift on the gently tannic finish, which leaves a sappy red fruit preserve note behind.
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Built upon a tart, tangy spine of citrus, it's the acid that frames the wild-raspberry fruit. The earthy, herbal highlights often found in this AVA are here kept in check, though not completely obscured. The vineyard is planted to a mix of Pommard and Dijon clones, picked and fermented as a field blend.
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Brilliant ruby-red. Ripe red currant and cherry aromas are complemented by building suggestions of pungent flowers, succulent herbs and baking spices. Chewy and broad on entry and then more taut, offering bitter cherry, red berry and rose pastille flavors that turn sweeter through the midpalate. Youthful, gently gripping tannins frame an impressively long, spice- and mineral-tinged finish. No new oak.
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This biodynamic vineyard example stands out among the winery's single-vineyard selections for its texture and expressive details of multiple herb and earth flavors. The black-cherry fruit is a nice counterpoint, though in some respects secondary to the tart acids and umami mushroom accents.