Chanin Los Alamos Vineyard Pinot Noir 2021

VinousThe 2021 Pinot Noir Los Alamos Vineyard is gracious and e!usive, as wines from this site tend to be. Crushed flowers, bright red-toned fruit, cedar, tobacco and dried flowers all grace this refined, nuanced Pinot. Silky tannins wrap it all together. This is such a pretty wine.

Gavin Chanin describes 2021 as a mostly cool, sunny year, with cool weather also during flowering that resulted in smaller berries with thicker skins. The wines are gorgeous. The Chardonnays are pressed to barrel, with no settling, where they stay for 13-14 months before being racked for the first time and moved back into wood. Pinot Noirs typically see 35-50% whole clusters, but stems are rarely a pronounced signature. The Chanin wines stand out for their understated finesse and elegance. In 2021, the Chardonnays are especially fine.

Jeb DunnuckFrom sandy soils north of Sta. Rita Hills, the 2021 Pinot Noir Los Alamos Vineyard has a clean, up-front, fruit-driven nose of ripe strawberries, framboise, leafy herbs, and flowers. This carries to a medium-bodied, round, supple, seamless Pinot Noir with gorgeous purity of fruit, no hard edges, and outstanding length. It shows the supple, elegant, incredibly well-balanced style of the vintage and is already impossible to resist. This was 88% destemmed and spent 16 months in just 10% new French oak.