Chemistry Pinot Noir 2021If you have been visitingor trying to visitvineyards on the West Coast in the last few years, you may have run into some serious difficulty because they were on fire. And not on fire in the sense that they were having great vintages making stellar wine, but rather, actually, literally On Fire. Unfortunately, it happened up and down the West Coast, hitting almost all wine regions. But not hitting them uniformly in and out of years, in and out of areas,

explaining that it's Roussanne

Pax Mahle made one of the truly epic wines of the year

On the nose

Less charming than the village wine

grilled shrimp

They enjoy a temperate hillside microclimate

ONCE UPON A TIME

Bright morning in the glass — a petillant burst of wild strawberry and rhubarb skin

creating ideal growing conditions for Pinot Noir

and a savory hint of dried herbs

with red cherry skin

This beautiful expanse of sun