2022 Mail Road Mt. Carmel Pinot Noir
"The single vineyard 2022 Pinot Noir Mt Carmel Vineyard is slightly more complex and nuanced, offering a gorgeous nose of wild strawberries, dried flowers, rose, savory spices, and forest floor-like nuances. With medium-bodied richness, a layered, seamless mouthfeel, and finely polished tannins, it's another remarkable Pinot Noir from this team that has so much to love. It's approachable now yet will benefit from just a year or two of bottle age." -Jeb Dunnuck, 95JD
A partnership between Santa Barbara winemakers Matt Dees of Hilt/Jonata fame and Mt. Carmel Vineyard owner Ron Piazza, these are wines of uncompromising excellence and distinction. Mt Carmel's soils lie adjacent to Sea Smoke's in the Botella clay loam only found along a narrow bench in the middle of the Sta Rita Hills AVA. The combination of windy exposure, soil composition, organic farming, and naturally low yields creates wines marked by deep concentration, depth, textural complexity and bright acidity. Just 114 cases produced.
