Williams Selyem Precious Mountain Vineyard Pinot Noir 2010
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In recent years, Precious Mountain Vineyard has provided Bob Cabral with some of his most glorious fruit. Tremendous in flash and depth, it offers compelling flavors of raspberry and cherry, accented by sweet, smoky oak. There’s such complexity in the acid and tannin structure, and in the earthy, stony, spicy nuances, that you find something new to love with every sip. This masterpiece is fabulous now, and will develop bottle complexity over the next 15 years, at least.Cellar Selection.
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Precious Mountain is an early planting in the Fort Ross–Seaview zone of the far coast, on ridges above the fog at 1,400 feet. The Schatzberg’s five acres of pinot noir, dry-farmed and organically grown, consistently produce one of Williams Selyem’s most complex and distinctive wines. In 2010, it’s classical, with just a few rough edges of the vintage: vibrant coastal spice, dark fruit shot through with light, the sweet graham notes of oak, the tart cut of citrus-like acidity. There’s no heat, and there’s a purity of flavor that bodes well for several years of development in the cellar.
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Williams Selyem Winery began as a simple dream of two friends, Ed Selyem and Burt Williams, who pursued weekend winemaking as a hobby in 1979 in a garage in Forestville, California, and made their first commercial vintage in 1981. In less than two decades, Burt and Ed created a cult-status winery of international acclaim. Together they set a new standard for Pinot Noir winemaking in the United States, aligning Sonoma County's Russian River Valley in the firmament of the best winegrowing regions of the world. Today John and Kathe Dyson, who purchased the winery from Burt and Ed in 1998, carry on the passion for Pinot Noir winemaking without compromise. As for the wines... they just keep getting better and better.