2012 Brick House Pinot Noir Cuvée du Tonnelier

The 2012 Pinot Noir Cuvee du Tonnelier comes from the Ribbon Ridge AVA from the Pommard clone. The vines are now 22 years old and this vintage included 10 percent whole-cluster fruit and was matured in 35% new oak. Very pure in color, it has a generous, floral bouquet with quite precocious scents of redcurrant and cranberry fruit, rose petals and a puff of chalk dust. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannin. The acidity is very well judged with touches of marmalade infusing the pure red fruit with fig developing toward the refined finish. Gorgeous.