2002 Ken Wright Pinot Noir Shea Vineyard

Good medium red. Highly nuanced, perfumed nose combines raspberry, rose petal, licorice, tree bark, bitter chocolate and smoky oak. Sappy, chewy and dense but still a bit youthfully backward in the middle. Impressively tactile wine, with a distinctly saline aspect and a restrained sweetness. Best today on the back end, which is ripely tannic, subtle and very long, throwing off notes of raspberry, minerals and Thai basil.