Chehalem Reserve Pinot Noir (Screwcap) 2015 cristom-vineyards with fleshy cassis and blackberry

with fleshy cassis and blackberry fruit

Antonio Galloni

The nose expresses pear

touch of chalky pucker

Chehalem Reserve Pinot Noir (Screwcap) 2015 cristom-vineyards with fleshy cassis and blackberryThis wine will blow your socks off. Not only was it a fabulous vintage to begin with, a bit of hail in the Spring on Ribbon Ridge clipped this crop short and helped to concentrate this wine even more. Red to black velour in color, so deep you can barely see through it, with a bounty of dark fruit (think huckleberries and tiny soft blackberries), so concentrated and filled with sweet fruit. The flavors and aromas keep changing in the glass, but the