Foris Pinot Noir Rouge Valley 2024

93 Points (Editors’ Choice), Wine Enthusiast – 92 Points, James Suckling

Wine Enthusiast didn’t just rate this wine incredibly high. They told people to hunt it down: “Pinot Noir fans should do everything possible to find this incredible value.” That’s not subtle. That’s an Editors’ Choice and an emphatic recomendation to their readers!

This 2024 Pinot Noir is 100% estate fruit from Foris’ two gorgeous vineyards: Cedar Ranch and Maple Ranch. Everything here was hand-harvested, de-stemmed, whole cluster fermented in small bins. The amount of work is staggering, but this labor of love pays off in spades especially in fantastic years like 2024

Just read Wine Enthusiast’s review below, it’s so good – I had to post it in its entirety:

“Pinot Noir fans should do everything possible to find this incredible value. It all starts with ripe red cherry and tart blackberry aromas playing off of one another in fine sweet-tart fashion. Additional aromas of black tea and loamy soil linger in the background. Then comes a delightful blackcap raspberry jam flavor that is balanced by lemony acidity and fine-grained tannins. There is also this baked good flavor that, appropriately enough given the raspberry jam, comes across like a warm sourdough biscuit. The wine’s texture is extraordinarily silky, like sliding into a bed made with 600 thread count sheets.”