More herbs, earth, underbrush and forest notes are present in the medium ruby-colored 2009 Pinot Noir Ridgetop Vineyard. This wine has crisp acids, shows more tartness than several of the other cuvees, and comes from an impeccable vineyard source, the Ridgetop Vineyard, managed by Thomas Brown and Fred Schrader, with Ulises Valdez working in the background as well. It is a very cool-climate, high-elevation site, and the wine is feminine and in need of more time to reveal its full personality. Everything is here, and I suspect plenty of complexity will emerge with another year of bottle age, but this was the most challenging Pinot to taste from Sojourn.This Sonoma winery, owned by Craig Haserot, while the winemaker is Erich Bradley, has come a long way in a very short period of time. The current releases include some very appealing Pinot Noirs.