Showing the house style with its silky, polished, already approachable feel, the 2014 Pinot Noir Julia’s Vineyard offers impressive notes of black cherries, dark raspberry, dried flowers and spice. All from the sandy soils of Julia’s Vineyard in the Santa Maria Valley and vines planted in the 1970s, it was completely destemmed and aged in 40% new French oak, with a good portion of the blend seeing fermentation in barrel. It’s already hard to resist and I see no need to delay gratification.