Tyler La Rinconada Vineyard Pinot Noir

and spring’s got it

where fog rolls in off the Pacific each evening and sunlight returns the next morning with a kind of quiet generosity

Pulls you in with an energetic finish

Don’t think about their modest price

The package is fun

the pressure on Claudie to return and work the vines of the domaine steadily intensified

In the glass it’s a pale garnet that seems to breathe the folded geology of Pupillin’s clay-limestone hills

Fermented entirely in stainless steel

and dried bay as it moves

Think about how much of them you should buy

Some of us may have cellars that are provisioned with gloriously harmonious ’81 Brunello but most of us need something to drink tonight

loess-and-limestone minerality keeps everything taut and grounded