2010 Allen Vineyard Pinot Noir

As is so common with the Allen vineyard, the wine has a wonderful feminine bouquet of fragrant rose, strawberry, raspberry and five spice. The maturity of the vines contributes to the amazing complexity of this wine. The palate offers powdery mouth-coating tannins, raspberry and dark cherry fruit with Asian spices, sweet caramel and mocha oak and a long chocolate cherry finish, intermingled with spices and minerals. This is a wine with a wonderful acid-tannin structure that has a long life ahead of it. It is a very broad and centered wine that seems to continue to build on the palate. The Allen vineyard always produces a more subtle Pinot Noir that ages deceptively well.