Moderate garnet color in the glass. Comforting aromas of dark berries and sandalwood. Sleek and polished on the palate, with middleweight flavors of blackberry, black raspberry and spice with an earthy undertone. More darkly fruited than usual for Rosella’s. The tannins are woven in nicely and the sweet fruited finish satisfies. There is the slightest sense of alcoholic warmth on the finish.

Medium ruby-purple in color, the 2015 Pinot Noir Parsons' Vineyard delivers intense floral and baking spice notes plus cracked pepper, violets and forest floor nuances over a crushed cranberries core. The opulent medium to full-bodied palate is rounded, elegant and oh-so-pretty with a seductive, perfumed red fruit finish.

Says old-school Russian River here with lots of dried-cherry aromas and cedar. Full-bodied, big and juicy. Slightly jammy. Fig Newton? Screw cap.

From a tiny vineyard, just behind Kistler Vineyard and from the classic goldridge soils of the Russian River Valley, the 2015 Pinot Noir Ewald Vineyard is completely destemmed and aged all in neutral French oak. It offers lots of juicy, darker berry fruits, flowers, and spice-drive aromatics, medium-bodied richness, bright acidity and a silky texture. Drink it over the coming 7-8 years. I was able to taste Adam Lee’s full-lineup for this report, including his Russian River Valley, Sonoma and Oregon releases. It’s a big lineup, but there’s some gorgeous Pinot Noirs here. I’ve listed the wines in the order tasted, starting with Oregon, followed by Sonoma, Russian River Valley, Santa Lucia Highlands and Sta. Rita Hills.

Medium-light ruby; attractive, fragrant, floral, raspberry and cherry fruit aroma with hints of baking spices and forest floor; medium to medium-full body; elegant, silky, red fruit flavors with bright acidity and a relatively soft mouthfeel; medium tannin; lingering aftertaste. Easy and enjoyable to drink now, but as for all of Siduri’s Pinots, worthy of a few more years of bottle aging. Very highly recommended.

Savory herbs, tobacco, licorice, mint and earth notes give the 2015 Pinot Noir Van Der Kamp Vineyard its distinctive, mountain-influenced personality. The intensity of the vintage is evident, but there is more than enough complexity and aromatic nuance to complement the richness of the fruit. This is a very pretty wine.

Marked by a very sure and sustained sense of nicely extracted, but slightly withdrawn fruit, yet a Pinot Noir of slightly brooding potential rather than one that leaps sweetly from the glass, this one from Sonoma Mountain marries black cherries and rich oak in a deep and fairly solid, well-structured mix. Suppleness will come, as will increased sophistication, but only with additional age, and the wine has the look of one that is guaranteed to repay big dividends for collectors willing to lay it way for five or more years. Do not make the mistake of pouring it too soon. Two stars.

Medium ruby; attractive, forward, deep, cherry fruit aroma with herbal notes and hints of baking spices; medium to medium-full body; crisp, tight, red and dark fruit flavors with firm structure, good acid balance, and some richness in the mouthfeel; medium tannin; lingering aftertaste. Deserves a few more years of bottle aging. Very highly recommended.

Produced from Pommard and Martini clones planted in the mid-1990s in a relatively cool area, the 2015 Pinot Noir Lingenfelder Vineyard has a medium ruby-purple color and spicy red currant, lavender and rose hip tea notes with a waft of underbrush. Chewy textured with crisp acidity and a medium body, it has an understated style with very good intensity finishing with fragrant earth notes.

2015 PINOT NOIR, LINGENFELDER VINEYARD The nose is a bright cranberry infused with herb, tomato and firm cherry. The palate is a silky strawberry wrapped in a cherry, herb and tobacco.

Offers an expansive range of spicy wild berry, savory herb, light oak and fresh earth flavors. Impressively balanced and focused.

Offers an expansive range of spicy wild berry, savory herb, light oak and fresh earth flavors. Impressively balanced and focused. Drink now.

Firm, focused and light-footed, with blueberry and plum flavors set on a taut frame. Savory notes inform the long finish.

I loved the 2014 Pinot Noir Santa Lucia Highlands and this soft, silky, complex beauty is certainly a match for a number of the more expensive single vineyard releases. Giving up lots of Bing cherry, crushed flowers, black raspberry and spice, it has medium-bodied richness, no hard edges and a seamless texture, all of which allow it to shine today. Nevertheless, it should evolve gracefully given its impeccable balance.

Supple, generous and expressive, dancing deftly while offering black cherry, smoke and pepper flavors that come together on a harmonious finish.

A smoky nose with mushrooms, dried cherries and dried herbs. Fruit-forward with round tannins. Not overwhelming. The acidity pulls it all together on the finish.

Pleasantly rich and elegant without being weighty, with plum, blueberry and blackberry flavors accented by spice and light oak hints. An exciting and enjoyable style.

Moderately dark reddish purple color in the glass. Riper and more darker red fruited than usual for Rosella’s in this vintage, but the quality of the fruit really shines from entry to finish. The fruit has a slightly cooked quality, but still seduces. The oak is deftly managed, the tannins are complimentary, the texture is smooth, and the fruity finish is noticeably generous.

Among the richer, more immediately fruity of the new Siduri Pinots and a wine that earns high marks for its varietal precision, its admirable depth and its very careful construction, the 2014 from Rosella's Vineyard shows plenty of volume without ever tipping the scales in the direction of being too much. Its juicy appeals definitely invite early drinking, yet its concentration and balance provide reasons enough for a few years of waiting.

Tastes sweet beyond ripeness, with a rich, juicy core of cherry pie that fans out to blueberry and wild berry flavors, gaining depth and structure. Reveals a gravelly earth edge that offsets the ripeness.

Tastes sweet beyond ripeness, with a rich, juicy core of cherry pie that fans out to blueberry and wild berry flavors, gaining depth and structure. Reveals a gravelly earth edge that offsets the ripeness.

An instant charmer, pleasantly plump and juicy, with a fruity core of blackberry and blueberry flavors shaded by light cedary oak. Ample backbone and depth emerge toward the finish.

Moderately light reddish purple color in the glass. A very savory and distinctive wine of great interest. The nose leads with the scents of cherry, tea leaves and dried herbs. The mid weight essence of black cherry fruit has an earthy underpinning as well as accents of green tea and subtle oak. Nicely balanced with silky tannins and a generous finish that speaks more of unrefined, composted and feral nuances than fruit.

A very deeply pitched nose is composed by notes of plum liqueur, briar and a hint of crushed herbs. There is excellent richness to the rounded and impressively dense medium weight flavors that also possess a caressing mouth feel before culminating in a focused, complex and mildly dusty warm finale. I suspect that if given a few years of bottle age the dusty aspect on the finish may very well successfully age out.