I guess I have carried an uninformed opinion of the Siduri Pinot Noir wines, so your note mentioning a Sonoma Coast single-vineyard bottling Pinot (of a traditionally AFWE-type site) by Siduri seemed counterintuitive.
I am not going to say that I believed allSiduri wines to be heavy-gauged, but…
I think that you could get that impression from the appellation bottlings; I’ve found the single vineyard wines to be pretty great especially in recent years. I went to a RRV wine dinner at the Siduri Wine Lounge a few weeks ago and had the 2012-2013 Keefer, 2013 Limerick Lane, 2013 2013 Ewald, 2013 Lingenfelder, and 2013 Parsons. I didn’t think any of them were particularly heavy gauged.
The dinners are pretty cool, $70/pp all inclusive and feature different appellations.
Yup, Michael…agree. His SV Pinots age very well. usually for at least 10 yrs if not longer.
Adam’s Pinots are on the heavier part of the Calif Pinot spectrum, they wouldn’t admit him to the IPoB cabal. But that’s because he adds at least 50% Syrah to beef them up.
All Calif Pinot makers do that. I know…because I read it on the InterNet!!
Tom