Samsara Melville Vineyard Pinot Noir, Sta Rita Hills, USA

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The brilliant 2008 Pinot Noir Melville combines impressive elegance with fruit intensity and power. Deep ruby/purple in color, with notes of blueberry pie interwoven with raspberries and black cherries, this is a long, heady wine with a subtle touch of oak, superb concentration, and a full-bodied mouthfeel. Combining finesse with density, this wine should drink nicely for 7-8 years. This is the personal project of Ron Melville’s son, Chad. He has turned in some impressive efforts in previous vintages and the 2008s are, for the most part, as good as his brilliant 2007s. Chad Melville tends to use approximately 50% stems/whole clusters for all of his Pinot Noirs with the exception of the Las Hermanas, which is only 25% whole cluster. His alcohols are moderate to moderately high by Santa Rita Hills standards – 14.1% is the lowest (for the Melville) to 14.7% the highest (for the Turner Vineyard). They are all 100% Pinot Noir and mostly made from various clones, including the newer Dijon clones, 115 and 667, and some of the older California clones such as Pommard. His oak regime is different from that of his mentors, Greg Brewer and Steve Clifton, since he prefers to use 20-25% new oak, except in the case of the single-barrel (new) wine, the “228.” Tel. (805) 331-2292

One sniff of this terrific Pinot Noir, and your brain knows it’s the good stuff. From the ruby color to the fresh, jammy plum, cherry, cola and beef jerky flavors, it’s just a terrific wine. Enormously complex and velvety in the mouth, it should improve over the next four years.——S.H.(2/1/2011)—— 93