Stats
- Grapes: 100% Pinot Noir
- Vineyard: Dash Farms
- Vine Age: 27-years-old
- Soil Type: Decomposed granite
- Viticulture: Sustainable
- Fermentation: Native — stainless-steel (85% whole berry - 15% whole cluster)
- Skin Contact: 21 days
- Aging: 12 months in 228L French oak barrels (10% new)
- Alcohol: 13%
- pH: 3.7
- Total Acidity: 5.5 g/L
- Total SO2: 30 ppm
- Total Production: 333 cases
Tasting Notes
Bright ruby red, and immediately inviting. Black raspberry, red cherry, exotic spices and woody herb aromatics fill the glass, with a subtle flinty, smokey complexity. The palate (as is usual for Josh’s style) is full of red fruit and spicy complexity, structured by fresh acid and fine, powdery tannins which lend plenty of seriousness to this early release wine.
Press & Reviews
Wine Advocate
92
"The 2024 Pinot Noir leads with blood orange and sandalwood, star anise and mandarin peel. The palate is a roaring cavalcade of sour cherry, autumn leaves, strawberry tops, white pepper, forest floor and a creamy, almost nutty finish. The acidity is pronounced but gently woven through all aspects of the palate. As usual, I find the wine to be layered and evocative, with cloth, new leather and pomegranate molasses."
- Erin Larkin
- Erin Larkin
The Wine Front
94
"From Dash Farm vineyard. This feels fancy. Herbal and high toned too. Delicious.
Slick and squeaky pinot noir of sleek lines, tightly wound, coiled with alpine herb, white pepper, green peppercorn, Thai basil, red cherry and touches of Campari and blood orange. All this melds so superbly, a slippery flow of beautiful pinot noir with detail of that herbs, spice, fresh fruit, all in such synergy and pretty fruitiness. So easy to drink, fresh and bright, so much pinosity, for those that count that."
- Mike Bennie
Slick and squeaky pinot noir of sleek lines, tightly wound, coiled with alpine herb, white pepper, green peppercorn, Thai basil, red cherry and touches of Campari and blood orange. All this melds so superbly, a slippery flow of beautiful pinot noir with detail of that herbs, spice, fresh fruit, all in such synergy and pretty fruitiness. So easy to drink, fresh and bright, so much pinosity, for those that count that."
- Mike Bennie