Estimate
Full-bodied and expressive, layering ripe blackberry, dark plum, green olive and spice flavors onto a supple frame, persisting on the long and expansive finish.
Ripe red berries, cola and fresh flowers on the smoke-accented nose. A touch of vanilla adds sweetness to lively raspberry and rose pastille flavors, with juicy acidity adding lift. Deftly plays richness off vivacity and shows no rough edges. Silky, expansive and spicy on the penetrating finish, which features supple tannins and an echo of cola.
Ribbon Springs is the principal source for Adelsheim Pinots, so this vineyard selection is essentially a reserve. As with all these limited offerings, it impresses with rich aromatics and a plush mix of red berries, pomegranate and cherry fruit.
...perfumed bouquet with boysenberry and raspberry fruit, all well defined with touches of orange blossom...palate is quite structured on the entry, although it is not masculine, rather solid and perhaps you could say "big boned." It is fresh and nicely poised with a touch of bitter cherry toward the finish.