2023 Memorious Pinot Noir
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Echoing my notes from last year's tasting before bottling, the 2023 Pinot Noir Memorious is shaping up to be a beautiful combination of polished, weightless, herbal and saline, despite its dark and brooding reticence on the nose. Derived from the westernmost portion of the estate on soils with a higher proportion of clay, the texture is beautifully lacy and dexterous, with a long, layered, gently structured finish highlighting salinity and elegantly tenacious tannic grip. This has entered a squarely savory phase that is still quite introverted and will likely remain so for the next few years.
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Matthew Luczy, Wine Advocate
Billy Norris, Vinous
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The 2023 Pinot Noir Memorious is supremely elegant. Floral overtones, blood orange, lavender and white pepper flesh out in a delicate yet well-articulated wine of great nuance. Beneath the hood lies a wealth of powerful structure, likely a function of the clay in the soil here. The Memorious is beautiful today, but based on the track record of these wines, it will only get better with time.