2014 Pahlmeyer Wayfarer Vineyard Pinot Noir Paige's Ridge

My favorite of the Paige’s Ridge releases, the 2014 Pinot Noir Paige's Ridge is a ripe, opulent effort that offers tons of spice, strawberry, dried flowers and forest floor aromas and flavors. Brought up in 100% new French oak, it's a ripe, undeniably sexy and seamless Pinot Noir that has everything. Drink it over the coming decade. Unfortunately, there’s on 40 cases made.

The 2014 Pinot Noir Paige's Ridge is rich, powerful and flamboyant. Ample and creamy through to the finish, the 2014 is built on a core of intense fruit and pure voluptuousness. Cloves, new leather and spices wrap around the juicy finish. The Paige's Ridge is the most overt of these 2014s from Wayfarer.

The 2014 Pinot Noir Paige's Ridge is one of the most overt wines in the Wayfarer range. Creamy, ample and expressive, with plenty of new oak influence, the Paige's Ridge wraps around the palate with expressive black cherry, plum, violet, dark spice and lavender. This is an especially deep, unctuous style for the Sonoma Coast. The new oak is still quite evident, but over the last few months, the wine has started to fill out its frame and absorb some of the oak. In 2014, winemaker Bibiana Gonzalez-Rave dropped some of the whole clusters, which resulted in a decidedly dark, sumptuous Pinot Noir. The 20% whole clusters are pretty much buried by the sheer intensity of the fruit.