Pinot Noir Falstaff Vineyard, Kutch 2021

I love Jamie Kutch’s wines, as every time I taste them, I think to myself “this is how I would make wine if I could.” Jamie always uses indigenous yeasts, raises the wines solely in used oak and bottles unfined and unfiltered. His 2021 Falstaff Vineyard bottling of pinot noir includes fifty percent whole clusters this year and is excellent, offering up a bright and complex nose of cherries, beetroot, a hint of blood orange, a refined base of soil, a touch of mustard seed, sweet stem tones and a very discreet framing of oak. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied and beautifully transparent in personality, with a good core of red fruit, fine soil signature, buried tannins and a long, vibrant and complex finish of impeccable balance. 2030-2075.