2012 Willakenzie Estate - Pinot Noir Terres Basses

The 2012 Pinot Noir Terres Basses has a clean and pure bouquet with sultry blackberry and briary scents intermingling with black tea and bay leaf. It clearly needs two or three years to "unwind." The palate is medium-bodied with crunchy red and black fruit, a dash of white pepper and sage surfacing with time. It does not fan out, but remains linear and quite masculine, a little austere at the moment, but surely willing to mellow out with bottle age. Serious, introverted but cerebral Pinot.