DOMAINE SERENE EVENSTAD PINOT NOIR 2010, Willamette Valley

"A vibrant, focused and deliciously complex red. offering rasberry, cherry, cinnamon, mocha and subtle sage notes rollinig through the rolling through the long and expressive finish. Deft. Reviewed October 2013. Wine Spectator (HS)" 2010 Vintage Tasted: Jan 2013 Dense, dark and spicy, this opens with a thicket of briar and bramble—one almost wants to say thistle—wrapped around taut, compact black fruits. There is a hint of gun metal running through the palate, and as the wine warms and slowly opens, it reveals a lingering finish with a little pat of butter left on the tongue. This should be in fine shape for at least another decade.