Chanin Bien Nacido Vineyard Pinot Noir, Santa Maria Valley, USA 2021 Clos Fourtet toast and blue flowers

toast and blue flowers

With its purple garnet colour

Needs some air

with floral raspberry and pomegranate flavors that are laced with fresh violet and toasty spice notes

Forthright lemon-curd

Chanin Bien Nacido Vineyard Pinot Noir, Santa Maria Valley, USA 2021 Clos Fourtet toast and blue flowersTheres always tension in the best of Gavin Chanins pinot noirs, the fruit unabashedly Californian in its breadth and generosity, tamed by a sense of the wind and fog glancing off Bien Nacidos slopes. This wine has an angular earthiness revealed when a cool climate pinot is harvested at the exact right time. It carries its sense of place in its texture, a humus like savor and mineral firmness. The dark cherry flavors are reticent, dusty and fine, with