2015 Pinot Noir Rincon Vineyard
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(raised for 18 months in French oak barrels, 20% of them new) Limpid ruby-red. A complex, highly perfumed bouquet evokes fresh red berries, Asian spices and candied rose, and a smoky mineral nuance adds vivacity. Sappy, sweet and penetrating in the mouth, offering juicy raspberry and floral pastille flavors joined by hints of spicecake and vanilla that build slowly on the back half. Focused and seamless in texture, showing superb finishing clarity, fine-grained tannins and outstanding persistence.
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With a pale to medium ruby-purple color, the 2015 Pinot Noir Rincon Vineyard has a nose of fragrant earth, underbrush and fungi over a core of red currants, cranberries and lavender, plus a touch of baking spices. Medium-bodied, with great intensity and expression, the earthy layers are well supported by chewy tannins and a lively backbone, finishing with a pretty herbal lift.
The 2015 Pinot Noir East Rincon Vineyard is another supple, pretty Pinot Noir that reveals light notes of strawberries, forest floor, flowers and underbrush. This medium-bodied, elegant effort leads with its fruit and has a silky texture, but is surprisingly fleeting and short. Talley Vineyards is unquestionably one of the leading estates in the Edna and Arroyo Grande Valleys, which are both distinctly cool-climate, ocean influenced regions located south of San Luis Obispo.