Goodfellow Family Cellars "Heritage No. 23 - Whistling Ridge" Pinot Noir '23

Beautiful and aromatically expressive in the nose, with room to continue developing. Deep red and blue fruits, roses, peonies, cardamom, dark earth, a hint of coffee and a wonderful savory edge. Silky and currently more delicate on opening in the palate, with lovely light red and blue fruits, strawberry, currant, and cranberry, a hint of underbrush and earth with lovely acidity. It opens over several hours and into the next day. Intensely fragrant, with deeper red fruits and amaro, dried orange peel, thyme, more loamy earth, mineral, strawberries, raspberry and raspberry leaf, lilac, fennel pastilles, holiday spices and more yellow roses. It's so aromatically expressive for so young a wine. I must remind everyone that at very high levels of whole cluster the fruit is tied up by the stems, the amount of body this will gain in the coming years will give it the depth in the palate to match the aromatics.