2015 Rivers-Marie Kanzler Vineyard Pinot Noir

This will be our last vintage of Kanzler as the family is
retaining a little more of their estate fruit to help build their own
label.  We’ve enjoyed our relationship
with the family and their commitment to quality for the past four
vintages.  This was always a site we’d
walk, shrug our shoulders and leave knowing there wasn’t much in the way of
adjustment we needed to ask for.  In the
cellar we’ve continued to up our whole cluster percentage to help balance the
abundant dark fruit profile we see from this site.  Like last year, the dominant notes are cola
and darker cherry and raspberry.  Though
it is one of our warmer sites, there’s plenty of natural acidity to cut into
the generosity of the fruit.  This too
has an ample amount of fruit tannin, something that appears to be a vintage
character.  We are sad to see this site go
but certainly nice to go out on the best version to date.