Tasting Notes

WA87

Wright was the first to vinify a vineyard-designate from this now famous site, and his 2010 Pinot Noir Shea is impressively broad and rich, if surprisingly stewed in its expression of dark cherry accented by bitter suggestions of cherry pit and huckleberry as well as by spruce resin. An undertone of mushroom stock serves for some intriguing savor, whereas a detached tart note - notwithstanding the otherwise cooked character of the fruit - and a drying spot of tannin give slight pause in the finish. I would want to revisit this before committing myself to a prognosis of age-ability, though in general Wright compares his 2010s to 1991s, which he claims have aged especially well.

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