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Fort Ross 2007 Fort Ross Vineyard Pinot Noir (Sonoma Coast)
- Editors' Choice
- $37
What a beautiful Pinot Noir for drinking now with lamb chops or maybe a rich, exotic Ahi tuna tartare. Brilliantly crisp in acidity, with a clean, bracing mouthfeel, it offers dazzlingly rich flavors of raspberries, cherries, orange zest, Dr. Pepper cola and Asian spices, with smoky oak adding elaborate tiers of vanilla char. For the price, it’s a very great buy.
— S.H.
(8/1/2010)
Fort Ross 2009 Fort Ross Vineyard Chardonnay (Sonoma Coast)
- Editors' Choice
- Online Exclusive
- $30
A brilliant Chardonnay. Almost nothing quite like it out there. Great, zesty acidity makes the mouth water, and oak is strongly there but perfectly vindicated by the power of the underlying flavors. They suggest ripe pineapples and tropical fruits, peaches, honeysuckle and a firm, stony minerality that has to come from the soil. For all the richness, the wine is…
— S.H.
(10/1/2011)
Fort Ross 2004 Fort Ross Vineyard Reserve Chardonnay (Sonoma Coast)
- $40
At the age of four years, this Chardonnay is losing its primary fruit character and picking up rich, complex aged notes of glazed cashews, baked pineapple and dried peaches and apricots. It’s also very spicy. Really fascinates the palate, offering a different experience each second, and should continue to interest for several more years.
— S.H.
(12/31/2008)
Fort Ross 2007 Fort Ross Vineyard Reserve Pinot Noir (Sonoma Coast)
- $49
A very beautiful wine that shows the exotic, feral quality of the greatest Pinot Noirs from the Fort Ross area. It’s explosive in wild raspberry and cherry flavors, with hints of pine, cola, wintergreen, anise, bacon and smoky, sweet vanillins from oak barrels. A wine of great pedigree, it’s showing well now, and should hold for the next six years.
— S.H.
(10/1/2011)
Fort Ross 2007 Symposium Fort Ross Vineyard Pinot Noir (Sonoma Coast)
- Editors' Choice
- $30
Held back for nearly four years, this Pinot still brims with acidity. Tartness is the shock that precedes columns of raspberries, cherries, pomegranates, persimmons and cola, bearing banners of exotic spices. A precise, intellectually pure wine, it should be decanted now, and will develop interestingly over the years.
— S.H.
(10/1/2011)
Fort Ross 2008 Fort Ross Vineyard Chardonnay (Sonoma Coast)
- Online Exclusive
- $30
Shows amazingly ripe fruit, offering a blast of pineapple jam, apricot, tangerine, papaya and lime flavors. The acidity is crisp and tart, and the oak is rich and flamboyant, yet in keeping with the size of the underling wine. Super-rich and decadent, this Chardonnay is at its best soon.
— S.H.
(8/1/2010)
Fort Ross 2006 Fort Ross Vineyard Chardonnay (Sonoma Coast)
- $32
A truly succulent, opulent Chardonnay. Tastes quite oaky with char and butterscotch flavors, but not too oaky. The barrel regimen is precisely in keeping with the ripe tropical fruit and honeysuckle flower flavors. Feels rich and dramatic.
— S.H.
(12/31/2008)
Fort Ross 2008 Fort Ross Vineyard Pinot Noir (Sonoma Coast)
- $37
Elaborately ripe, this polished Pinot explodes with fresh flavors of raspberries and cherries that taste pie-baked, with the smoky, sweet, toasty crust. It’s just delicious, and also obviously fruity-sweet, with a jammy attractiveness. What it lacks in subtlety it more than makes up for in richness. Drink now.
— S.H.
(10/1/2011)
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