2021 DuMOL Pinot Noir Finn
The Wine Advocate
RP 99
Reviewed by: Erin Brooks
Release Price:$130
Drink Date:2025 - 2040
The 2021 Pinot Noir Finn is the crown jewel in the DuMOL portfolio this vintage, offering unparalleled perfume, length and harmony. Its aromas blossom slowly, from rhubarb, blackberry jam and pomegranate, to pure accents of licorice, iodine and Earl Grey tea. The palate explodes with concentrated flavors, underpinned by tremendous spicy accents. It has a seamless, silky mouthfeel, an ethereal support of dusty tannins and a tremendously long, floral finish that just goes on and on—it's impossible not to take another sip of this dreamy Pinot Noir!
Published: Jun 16, 2023
ワインメーカー兼オーナーは、パーカーにより「Wine Makers of the Year」に選ばれ、「神の手を持つ」と呼ばれるアンディ・スミス。ポール・ホッブスを皮切りに、リトライ、ラークミードでワイン造りをし、デュモルによって自身の名を一躍有名にした。スコットランドを祖先にもつアンディはその完全主義で、エネルギーに満ち、しっかりとした力がありつつ美しい酸と余韻のバランスが取れた一級品を生産している
2020 DuMOL • Chardonnay Hyde Vineyard
Rating 97 points
Release Price NA
Drink Date 2022 - 2032 ⇒飲み頃に入っています
Reviewed by Erin Brooks
Issue Date 15th Jul 2022
Source July 2022 Week 2, The Wine Advocate
The 2020 Chardonnay Hyde Vineyard offers stunning transparency, with the volume turned up on aromatic detail and structural harmony. It opens with characteristic matchstick and flint that slowly unfolds to scents of white peach, lemon peel, crushed shell and dried chamomile. The palate is seamless, satiny and highly concentrated yet youthfully coiled, with a tensile core of preserved citrus. It has a long, mineral-driven finish that hints at the floral perfume and savory nuances yet to emerge. Curious about that matchstick character, I drank from this open bottle for five days as it opened and expanded in expression—it's going to be long lived in the cellar. Winemaker Andy Smith says this may be the earliest pick ever of Hyde—these Chardonnay grapes were harvested just two days after the wildfires began, on August 20th. Typically around 36 barrels are made; in 2020, only 20 barrels were made.