By Farr - RP Cote Vineyard Pinot Noir - 2021

It’s one of the most complex young pinot noirs I’ve had in a long time. It’s carrying a level of oak that feels a touch above its usual as well, in how it displays anyway, though given that this wine will be cellared, its oak level is not an issue. This wine smells of pan juices and rosemary, of earth and woodsmoke, of fresh beetroot and violets, before more commonplace cherries eddy through. There’s a bright Bing cherry note riding the centre of the palate too, though it rises from a field of undergrowth and blood orange and cedar and something else, something grown up through the earth, more beet maybe, something with roots anyway, edible roots. It’s structured by its acidity and by tannin, but neither are excessive; as a wine, despite or because of its myriad goings on, it feels at peace. Given time, it will deliver. 95+ Points Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front