2021 Radio-Coteau Pinot Noir Dierke

From a later ripening site, the 2021 Pinot Noir Dierke has a darker appearance and offers notes of ripe black raspberry liqueur and brushy earth. On the palate, it has great purity and energy in its notes of ripe red berries, turned earth, beet root, and ripe tannins, and lifted freshness. It has good length, with a bit of stemmy spice and wooded earth on the finish. Drink 2025-2050. Eric Sussman began Radio-Coteau in 2002, focusing on cool-climate sites along the north Sonoma Coast and the Anderson Valley in Mendocino. Eric purchased the current winery home in 2012, and they currently have 22 acres under vine across from the Charles Heintz Vineyard as well as six acres of apples from which they produce a hard cider. Marking their 22nd vintage, they are currently producing biodynamically farmed Chardonnay, Riesling, Pinot Noir, Syrah, and Zinfandel and have been Demeter certified since 2018. Eric spent several vintages in France prior to coming to California, working for Baron Philippe de Rothschild in Bordeaux, as well as Domaine Comte Armand and Domaine Jacques Prieur in Burgundy, and his wines certainly carry an Old World sensibility. All the wines undergo native fermentations and are bottled and racked in-house without fining or filtration.