Tolpuddle Vineyard, Pinot Noir Vintage:2018 flowers and spices wrap around

flowers and spices wrap around the gorgeous

Vivid ruby-red

This is also relatively fruity and if not especially elegant

You could drink this now with food but there is still lots of life in it

Giuseppe Quintarelli's namesake 2008 Rosso del Bepi (made well before this legendary figure would pass away in 2012) is made in the so-called average vintages when Amarone is not produced

Tolpuddle Vineyard, Pinot Noir Vintage:2018 flowers and spices wrap aroundThe 2017 Pinot Noir is one of the darkest Pinot Noirs on the table. It shows restraint and balance in the mouth like no otherthe whole bunch lends a peaty character to the wine and balances the beautiful red and black fruit in the mouth. This is a wine of balance. It has light (where things grow in abundance) and shade (where lichen and undergrowth rule), and both are in balance with the othera symbiotic relationship if there ever was one. It pulses