2023 McDougall Ranch Pinot Noir
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The 2023 Pinot Noir McDougall Ranch presents the darkest and most fruit-driven profile of the Kutch vineyard designates, leading with black cherry, pomegranate and anise aromas. The palate strikes a beautiful midpoint between supple and slender, releasing into an effortless finish grounded by a sappy, slow-moving core of succulent fruits. As primary as this is today, it wears the energy and clarity of the vintage on its sleeve and should develop beautifully in the cellar.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Jeb Dunnuck
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The 2023 Pinot Noir MacDougall Ranch is a very pretty wine with aromas of bright red fruit, rosy perfume, and strawberries. Made with 15% whole clusters, it’s a fresh, medium-bodied wine with a pretty, silky, elegant feel, fine tannins, delicate salinity, and a clean finish. This is the personal family project of Will Segui from Rivers-Marie, and it’s a very pretty wine. Drink 2025-2035.
Full bottle 1,344 g. 21 barrels produced from vines planted in 1998 at 1,010 ft, 3.5 miles from the Pacific on Greywacke and sandstone. Picked 29 September. 50% whole cluster, spontaneous fermentation and aged in used French oak barrels. Unfined, unfiltered. Limpid garnet. Very edgy-but-rich raspberry fruit. Hugely appealing already. Chock-full of fruit and charm. Sonoma Coast rather than Burgundy and none the worse for it. A jewel of a wine hiding its light tannins under all that fruit. (JR)
The 2023 Pinot Noir McDougall is a potent, tightly wound wine. Dark-toned fruit, lavender, licorice, spice, menthol and dried herbs add to an impression of somber gravitas. The McDougall is especially closed and muscular today. I will be curious to see if it opens with some time in bottle.