HAMILTON RUSSELL VINEYARDS - Pinot Noir - 2021

HAMILTON RUSSELL VINEYARDS

Pinot Noir 2021

- 96 points -

Anthony Hamilton Russell views this as perhaps his finest Pinot Noir to date. 2021 was a cooler, later vintage (only 2001, 2004 and 2008 have been cooler in the past 25 years). It shows concentrated red berry fruit and sweet and spicy notes on the palate with velvety tannins and structure for the long haul. Aged 10 months in François Frères barriques. Still ultra-youthful, it needs two or three years but will keep several decades.

Andy Howard MW,