Pinot from an Old Orchard
Nana-Tsu-Mori — 'seven forests' — was once an orchard of seven fruit trees; now it grows Japan's most talked-about Pinot Noir. Pale, floral, high-strung, and not quite like anything in the Burgundy songbook.
Vintage 2018
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The Grower Who Kept Some Back
Hudson Ranch spent decades as the name on other people's labels. The estate bottling comes from the same Carneros blocks, in a year cool enough that the Chardonnay came in during October.
The Grape They Kept Planting Anyway
A house built on Cabernet and a Bordelais idea of restraint, making Zinfandel — the grape it planted in 1972 because everyone did, and never quite stopped. Opened on an ordinary evening at home, one glass, one cork.