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Williams Selyem

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Williams Selyem

Ed Selyem and Burt Williams pursued their winemaking dream in a garage in Forestville, California. Their first vintage was produced in 1982 and within five years, their demand exceeded supply and a wait list was created. Selyem fans had to wait, at times, up to three years to purchase one of these delectable bottles! They quickly gained cult status and set a new standard for Pinot Noir. Now the Dyson family owns the winery and is still created outstanding Pinot Noir.

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Tasting Notes

WE97
Expressive in oak, earth and clove with cinnamon-cola, this savory, complex wine is also impressive in its ability to offer crisp and focused lines of citrus and fresh-picked raspberry. It teeter-totters the variety's ability to be both fruit-forward and elusively hard to reach. Streaks of thyme and rosemary figure into the mix. Drink now through 2023. Cellar Selection.
CG95
Impressing right from the first with its fine sense of both polish and youthful vigor, the Rochioli Riverblock bottling is a complete and wonderfully precise Pinot that gains in richness as it sits in the glass. It marries very deep and incisive, ripe cherry fruit with a brightening bit of cranberry-like freshness and is filled out with complexing suggestions of crème brûlée and toasted vanilla. It is extraordinarily long on the palate with great fruity stamina, and, as good as it is now, it is wine that is very much worthy of hiding away in the cellar for a half-dozen or more years.

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