Chenoweth, Home Ranch Pinot Noir, 2019

Right, we need to talk about this one — because 93 POINTS from Wine Enthusiast and a Russian River Valley address this rare don't come along everyday. The CHENOWETH HOME RANCH PINOT NOIR 2019 is the sort of find that makes you want to ring everyone you know and then immediately think better of it, because then you'd have to share. ​ Charlie Chenoweth farms just 7 acres of Goldridge-soiled vines on the cool, fog-wrapped western edge of the Russian River Valley — a site so precisely suited to Pinot it borders on unfair. Aged 16 months in French oak, this Dijon-clone beauty was picked up by Wine Enthusiast, who called it "an impressively memorable wine that builds flavour and texture as it opens._"_ We read that, nodded sagely, and ordered as much as we possibly could. ​ This is Pinot at its most precise and persuasive. Red plum, dark cherry, sandalwood, and a finish that absolutely refuses to leave. ​ At this price, leaving it in the basket is practically a crime against good taste!!!