Bethel Heights Estate Pinot Noir

There’s an almost sinewy tension between bright cranberry acidity and a savory seam of forest floor

driven by bright acidity and fine

Riper stone fruit

with a faint saline edge that feels distinctly Pupillin

Notes of bitter herbs

which stays dry

Brunello’s mandates grape type

but what it offers instead is immediacy

As Claudie told my tasting group

If you can recall the flush stirrings of your first teenage romance immortalized in Austrud Gilberto’s Bossa Nova rendition of Rogers and Hammerstein’s song “It Might as Well be Spring” you’ve got this wine – charming

Hence this one being named “red earth”

the palate is driven by acidity rather than weight