Davies Vineyard Davies Vineyards Pinot Noir Nobles Vineyard 2020 750ml

Bountiful black-cherry flavors and good balance make this full-bodied wine difficult to resist. Black-fruit flavors are rich and well concentrated, backed by a light touch on the oak spices that emerge on the finish and add nice complexity. (Jim Gordon)

This carries the forest-green scent of the far-coast hills, a savory pinot noir with mineral intensity. The wine’s cherry-red fruit ripens on the eastern, leeward slopes of the second ridge in from the Pacific, that ripeness tamed by an earthy evergreen scent lasts for minutes, as if breathing the air at the edge of a redwood grove

Enticing, with gently mulled raspberry and red cherry notes mixed with touches of forest floor, licorice root and incense. Polished finish. Drink now through 2025. 275 cases made. (James Molesworth)