2024 Anonymous Wine Collective Anderson Valley Pinot Noir

The next incredibly exciting release in our Anonymous Wine Collective series is a beautiful Anderson Valley Pinot Noir. This collaboration between K&L and the winery dates back to well beyond the creation of our Anonymous label. This wine has existed in a previous life under our long running Kalinda house label! I'm very excited to expand this relationship into the Anonymous range as it's a true privilege to work with this highly renowned winery. Founded in the early 1990s, this winery is truly and icon in the production of Sonoma Coast and Anderson Valley Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. Known for their elegant, complex, Burgundian inspired winemaking, this winery produces highly collectible wines only available via the mailing list, auctions, and high-end restaurants. Their most recent set of releases were scored in the 96 to 99 point range by The Wine Advocate, Jeb Dunnuck, and Antonio Galloni's Vinous. I was lucky enough, once again this year to visit the winery, taste from barrels, and put together our cuvee. The Anonymous bottling is very in keeping with the winery's style, elegant, finessed, bright lifted fruit, lovely floral and savory earthy components. It's not a big, ripe wine, it's a wine that is about capturing the sensual, refined, layered, subtle complexities of cool-climate Pinot Noir. Bottle in July, this wine is already very expressive and aromatic. I think it will continue to gain depth and complexity over the coming months and years and will no doubt be a lovely 4-6 year wine, and likely continue to age well though 8-10 years and beyond. For folks who enjoy Burgundy and more graceful expressions of new world Pinot Noir this is a real treat!