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2015 Rhys Family Farm Vineyard Pinot Noir

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January 4, 2026 - $44

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RATINGS

95Vinous / IWC

Pure, saline-driven and tense...shows a more focused, chiseled expression... Time in the glass brings out the wine's body, textural richness and overall density...

95Jeb Dunnuck

...smoking good. Possessing awesome complexity and depth in its framboise, cassis, spice, forest floor and leafy, green herb aromatics, it hits the palate with an understated, yet building style that carries beautiful richness, sweet, polished tannin and surprising length...

94The Wine Advocate

...with notes of red cherries, wild berries, aromatic bark, subtle sweet spices and savory bass notes. On the palate, it's full-bodied, ample and layered, with a generous core of ripe fruit, beautifully ripe, velvety tannins and succulent balancing acids. Attractively multidimensional and complete...seductive and voluptuous...

90Burghound.com

This is at once aromatically quite ripe but also quite floral with a lovely panoply of spice elements adding breadth to the mostly red and dark berry fruit aromas. There is excellent volume, mid-palate density and richness to the borderline lavish flavors that coat the palate with dry extract on the moderately warm finish that really fans out...

PRODUCER

Rhys

Rhys Vineyards is a Santa Cruz maker of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. The estate is owned by Kevin Harvey, who has vineyards in several sites in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Rhys Vineyards also makes a few wines under the Alesia label that come from grapes purchased in the Sonoma Coast and in the Santa Lucia Highlands. It is the Rhys Pinot Noirs and Chardonnays, however, that have made the small estate into something of a cult producer of California wines with Burgundian appeal. Both the Pinots and Chardonnays regularly earn high ratings from reviewers. The wines are generally available through mailing lists.

TYPE

Red Wine, Pinot Noir

This red wine is relatively light and can pair with a wide variety of foods. The grape prefers cooler climates and the wine is most often associated with Burgundy, Champagne and the U.S. west coast. Regional differences make it nearly as fickle as it is flexible.

VINTAGE

2015 Rhys Family Farm Vineyard Pinot Noir