2022 Kelley Fox Durant Vineyard Pinot Noir
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The 2022 Pinot Noir Durant Vineyard comes from own-rooted vines planted in 1973 and 1984. “I love self-rooted vines,” proprietor and winemaker Kelley Fox says. “Having this graft, there’s something that is lost and fuzzy in that translation.” Grapes were destemmed, and the wine was matured in used French oak. The nose is bursting with pomegranate, blueberry, blood orange and lilac aromas. The palate is slender with lacy, tea-like tannins and vibrant acidity, though its flavors are concentrated and highly perfumed, and it has a long, latent finish. Only 104 cases were made.
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A bright but transparent magenta hue, the 2022 Pinot Noir Durant Vineyard is all about sapidity, with resinous fresh herbs, fresh wild black raspberries, strawberries, and fresh earth, and it has an airy feel, with refreshing sweet earth and self-rooted vines. Medium-bodied, it offers ripe tannins and a lush texture, with a long finish. It stays fresh and lifted, buoyant yet rounded. Drink 2024-2040.
The 2022 Pinot Noir Durant Vineyard cascades up from the glass with a glorious bouquet of sweet lavender and rose petals complementing crushed blackberries and shavings of fresh pine. This is a model of purity, silken to the core yet lifted and precise with juicy wild berry fruits and a burst of citrus-infused acidity that maintains unbelievable freshness. A coating of crystalline tannins flexes upon the senses as notes of blackberry and a flourish of violet slowly fade.