Holdredge The True Pinot Noir 2014

This is just wonderfully smooth and focused, and totally distinct from our other wines. Driven by aromatics of plums, cherries, and notes of red licorice and black licorice, it is weighty and yet not at all heavy. Somehow, it shows that a wine can at once be lithe and powerful.

Holdredge Wines are a small family winery in the truest sense of the term. They make less than 2,000 cases of Pinot Noir from Sonoma County’s Russian River Valley and Sonoma Coast each year. Their focus is on making Pinot Noir from places that are special to them- which is the path to expressive and interesting wines. They also have a second label devoted to the obscure and less well-known grape varieties of Italy, which we call “Oscuro.”