DuMOL - MACINTYRE ESTATE VINEYARD PINOT NOIR 2022
Price: $109.99
| Producer | DuMOL |
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| Country | USA |
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| Region | Sonoma Coast |
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| Varietal | Pinot Noir |
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| Vintage | 2022 |
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| Sku | 37783 |
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DuMOL Description
How does one replicate the incredible quality of 2021? That’s a tough ask! It was selected, after all, as “Wine of the Year” by the world’s most prominent wine critic. The natural answer is to farm the vines at the highest possible, most precise level as the new vine growing season progresses. There’s no recipe here, the grapes vary in style each vintage, just as they should. And so, the fruit is leaner than 2021, the volume a little toned down, the structure less dominant. What we have instead is precision, focus, drive and purity of sandy soil, cool climate Pinot character. There’s a strong sense of tiny grape-berry intensity in this wine. It energizes the palate and fills the mouth with density but remains a middleweight – lithe, tangy, and uniquely coastal in expression – you can’t find this wine style anywhere outside a 12 mile stretch inland of the Pacific Ocean in western Sonoma County.
Great soaring aromatic intensity: tiny red and black tightly wound fruits, minerals, cassis and red apple skin then savory umami characters akin to kelp, iodine, and herbal pine notes. Wild berry fruit drives the tangy palate. There's a lovely herbal, woodsy edge emanating from the vines themselves. As the wine expands, there’s a deep concentrated fruit pastille impression, before driving acidity extends the wine’s lilting echoing finish. Drink between late-2024 and 2030.
James Suckling: 97 Points
So much iodine and seaweed character on the nose with plum and dried cherry undertones. Medium-bodied with very tightly grained tannins that give this density and composure. It’s compacted and chewy. You feel the sea in this. Unique. Give it two or three years to open and present its lovely self.
Jeb Dunnuck: 95 Points
The MacIntyre Estate Vineyard was planted in 2016 from Calera clone only, on very sandy soil, and the tight compact berries ripen at low sugar levels. The 2022 Pinot Noir MacIntyre Estate Vineyard is a bright ruby color and offers notes of fresh fruit, savory sea spray, tea leaf, and bright redcurrants. It’s medium-bodied, with fine but present tannins and shares a lot of similarities with the 2014, with a balanced spine of acidity to tie it all together. Drink it over the next 10-15 years.
Wine Advocate: 94 Points
The 2022 Pinot Noir MacIntyre Estate Vineyard was harvested on August 24 before the Labor Day heat wave. It has intoxicating aromas of pomegranate, rhubarb, hibiscus tea and iodine. The light-bodied palate is expressive and pure with a finely astringent texture, mouthwatering acidity and a long, latent finish. It will benefit from 3-5 years in bottle. 748 cases were made.
