Bailiwick
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Bailiwick 2009 Borderline Pinot Noir (Marin County)
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- $34
So savory and easy to like, you might miss the complexity, but it’s there. Offers flashy raspberry and cherry pie, red plum, pie spice and sandalwood flavors, packed into firm but gentle tannins, and brightened with crisp acidity. The finish is entirely dry despite all the sweet fruit. Really defines the modern coastal California style, even if there’s no…
— S.H.
(5/1/2012)
Bailiwick 2009 Silver Pines Vineyard Pinot Noir (Sonoma Mountain)
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- $44
Tight and brittle now, with acidity and dryness starring. The thing to understand about this Pinot is that it’s quite modest in alcohol and understated in flavor, showing rhubarb, pomegranate and cherry Lifesaver flavors with a minerally edge. Elegant now, it should develop over the next six years.
— S.H.
(5/1/2012)
Bailiwick 2010 Foray Pinot Noir (Russian River Valley)
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- $40
This feels lush and important right out of the bottle, tantalizing with tart cherry, cola and persimmon flavors that are wrapped in acids and tannins. Give it up to six years, and enjoy. All of the fruit comes from the Foray Vineyard in the Green Valley.
— S.H.
(2/1/2013)
Bailiwick 2010 Silver Pines Vineyard Pinot Noir (Sonoma Mountain)
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- $44
The vineyard is a fine one, the fruit source for highly regarded Pinots from Tandem and Bailiwick’s own Silver Pines label. The wine is dry and silky, with strong acidity and tannins that currently render it tough to appreciate. Give it 5–6 years to let the raspberry and cola flavors integrate with the oak.
— S.H.
(2/1/2013)
Bailiwick 2009 Michaud Vineyard Pinot Noir (Chalone)
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- $44
A dry, tannic young Pinot Noir. It’s not a big, gushy wine, but comes down more on the elegant side, with low alcohol and an earthiness to the cherry and cola fruit. You want to age it for at least five years, to let it show its stuff.
— S.H.
(5/1/2012)
Bailiwick 2010 Pinot Noir (Chalone)
- Cellar Selection
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- $44
Light and silky, this packs a real punch in complexity, with layers of raspberry, cherry, cola and sweet oak. There’s a mushroom-driven earthiness you might call Burgundian. The tightness suggests aging, possibly over the long haul.
— S.H.
(2/1/2013)
Bailiwick 2010 Cabernet Franc (Russian River Valley)
- $28
Medium bodied and dry, this has a savory spiciness, with long-lasting flavors of cherry and smoky, vanilla-scented oak. A coating of finely ground tannins gives it enough bite to accompany steak. One of the best Cabernet Francs from the Russian River Valley in a long time.
— S.H.
(2/1/2013)
Bailiwick 2011 Vermentino
- Editors' Choice
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- $18
This wine is so good, it could make Vermentino the next big thing—except there’s so little of the variety planted in California. Bright and juicy in acidity, it has flavors of citrus and tropical fruit, apricot, peach and honeysuckle. It finishes dry and spicy; pair it with pasta in pesto sauce.
— S.H.
(2/1/2013)
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