From sandy soils north of Sta. Rita Hills, the 2021 Pinot Noir Los Alamos Vineyard has a clean, up-front, fruit-driven nose of ripe strawberries, framboise, leafy herbs, and flowers. This carries to a medium-bodied, round, supple, seamless Pinot Noir with gorgeous purity of fruit, no hard edges, and outstanding length. It shows the supple, elegant, incredibly well-balanced style of the vintage and is already impossible to resist. This was 88% destemmed and spent 16 months in just 10% new French oak. Tasted August 2023.

The 2021 Pinot Noir Los Alamos Vineyard is gracious and effusive, as wines from this site tend to be. Crushed flowers, bright red-toned fruit, cedar, tobacco and dried flowers all grace this refined, nuanced Pinot. Silky tannins wrap it all together. This is such a pretty wine. Tasted July 2023.