2010 Calera Pinot Noir Mills Vineyard

The transparent ruby-colored 2010 Pinot Noir Mills Vineyard has considerable structure and depth hiding under all of its texture and richness. Offering up notions of sweet cherries, strawberry, underbrush, crushed flowers and chalky minerality, it has a massive mid-palate, incredible purity and a seamless, elegant overall profile. It, too, will have 10-12 years or more of prime drinking. Drink now-2025. Open, voluptuous and sexy efforts, these all benefitted from substantial air time and gained richness and depth over the evening. They’re brilliant Pinot Noirs. www.calerawine.com

Calera's 2010 Pinot Noir Mills Vineyard is laced with sweet red berries, hard candy, flowers and cinnamon. Here, too, the aromatics retain an attractive brightness that plays off the super-ripe, candied fruit nicely. The 2010 needs more time in bottle to fully incorporate its whole clusters, but it is likely to always retain its ethereal, graceful personality.