2012 Cobb Pinot Noir Coastlands Vineyard Old Firs Block

The 2012 Pinot Noir Coastlands Vineyard Old Firs Block is the richest and most powerful of these Pinots. A wine of considerable density, that boasts tremendous power and breadth, especially within the context of the house style. Hints of reduction remain, but at the same time, the 2012 has the potential to develop into something truly special. Beams of salinity add energy to the dark red cherry and plum-inflected fruit.

The 2012 Pinot Noir Coastlands Vineyard Old Firs Block is marked by hints of new oak and reduction that mask the fruit. One of the riper, more overt wines in the range, the Old Firs fleshes out in the glass with dark red stone fruit, spice, smoke and floral notes, but the flavors aren't as focused as they are in Cobb's best wines. Old Firs is the original Coastlands block that once went to Williams-Selyem.