The Withers Pinot Noir Oppenlander Vineyard Mendocino 2021
David Low (Anthill Farms/Williams Seylem) ferments and ages everything in 5-15-year-old neutral French oak barrels with minimal intervention. The way the wine comes out with such piercing energy, I can’t understand why more people aren’t doing this. Everything here is done to let the vineyard speak, and it does effortlessly. This is a show-stopping Pinot you do not want to miss.
His 2021 Withers Oppenlander Vineyard PN is a beautiful medium-bodied with with great concentration and vibrancy, thriving in a moderate growing season that yielded expressive red fruit with natural freshness and silky tannins. It opens up brilliantly, showcasing aromatic notes of black raspberry, wild strawberry, and roses, complemented by savory hints of forest floor and black tea. The secret here is perfectly balancing intense fruit flavors like pomegranate and cranberry with a splash of oceanic acidity and fine-grained, velvety tannins. Such a winner, with our without food.
Original price was: $30.00.$23.00Current price is: $23.00.
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Here’s why this wine is such a runaway success: David Low is the winemaker behind the scenes. If that name sounds familiar, it’s because he’s also the founding winemaker at Anthill Farms after spending a long time at Williams Selyem—two of the most sought-after Pinot Noir producers in California. This is the same guy regularly crafting $100+ bottles, and taking that expertise and putting it behind his brother’s passion project, with fruit he gets to select himself from the Oppenlander Vineyard in Comptche.
Comptche is one of those insider secrets in Mendocino. It’s an area highly regarded for producing distinctive, “brooding” Pinot Noir with high acidity, savory forest floor notes, and structured brambly fruit from Dijon clones planted in a natural opening homesteaded in the 1860s.
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