The 2022 Pinot Noir Home Vineyard is a potent, tightly-wound wine. It shows quite a bit of energy and mid-palate presence, and yet the wine comes across as pretty packed and closed in around that core of fruit. Dried leaves, incense, pipe tobacco, brown spice and underbrush notes bring out the darker side of Pinot. There's more whole cluster here than in most of the Pinots, which at least partly explains the wine's reticence at this stage. (BN)

The 2022 Home Vineyard bottling of pinot from Rhys Vineyards is also fairly ripe this year, coming in at 13.6 percent octane, but keeping it below the fourteen percent threshold seems to have preserved even a bit more freshness and precision on both the nose and palate in comparison to the Family Farm. The bouquet wafts from the glass in a mix of sweet dark berries, cassis, gamebird, woodsmoke, dark soil tones, cola, brown spices, peonies and a gentle touch of cedary oak. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, focused and complex, with a juicy core of fruit, ripe, seamless tannins, good soil signature and grip and a long, beautifully balanced and classy finish. This will obviously get more complex with bottle age, but structurally, it is quite accessible at the moment and really quite delicious! 92+