$80 Pinot for Under $30 - New Anonymous Wine Has Arrived
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2024 Anonymous Wine Collective Anderson Valley Pinot Noir (Elsewhere $80) ($29.95) "For folks who enjoy Burgundy and more graceful expressions of New World Pinot Noir, this is a real treat!”— Ryan Woodhouse, K&L Domestic Wine Buyer 
The next incredibly exciting release in our Anonymous Wine Collective series is a beautiful Anderson Valley Pinot Noir. This collaboration between K&L and the winery dates back many years and I'm very excited to expand this relationship into the Anonymous range as it's a true privilege to work with this highly-renowned winery. Founded in the early 1990s, this winery is truly an icon in the production of Sonoma Coast and Anderson Valley Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. Known for their elegant, complex, Burgundian-inspired winemaking, this winery produces highly collectible wines only available via the mailing list, auctions, and high-end restaurants. Their most recent set of releases were scored in the 96- to 99-point range by The Wine Advocate, Jeb Dunnuck, and Antonio Galloni's Vinous. I was lucky enough, once again this year, to visit the winery, taste from barrels, and put together our cuvée. The Anonymous bottling is very in keeping with the winery's style—elegant, finessed, bright lifted fruit, lovely floral, and savory earthy components. It's not a big, ripe wine; it's a wine that is about capturing the sensual, refined, layered, subtle complexities of cool-climate Pinot Noir. Bottled in July, this wine is already very expressive and aromatic. I think it will continue to gain depth and complexity over the coming months and years, and will no doubt be a lovely 4-to-6-year wine, and likely continue to age well through 8 to 10 years and beyond. For folks who enjoy Burgundy and more graceful expressions of New World Pinot Noir, this is a real treat! -Ryan Woodhouse, K&L Domestic Wine Buyer 
2024 Anonymous Wine Collective Anderson Valley Pinot Noir (Elsewhere $80) ($29.95)
Well, it's not just any old regular Wednesday when we get in a new Anonymous Wine Collective wine! This is a new one for us, and especially new to me, so new that they haven't even whispered the actual provenance of the wine into my ear yet, so I get to do this actually blind. I definitely do think it's Pinot Noir from the nose and the... oh, it does say it's Pinot Noir, so I got that right at least. The nose is fairly light but very pretty, a lot of crunchier red fruits with cranberry, pie cherry, and pomegranate seeds classically fitting in. But there's also a touch of fresh rose petals and a little bit of savory cigar box. The palate is light and pretty as well; the same fruits from the nose, but they're a bit riper and less crunchy. There's a little bit of an olive note somewhere in the mid-palate, but it's more like thinking about the olive you just had a few minutes ago. This is extremely elegant, and the savory notes just make me think about what I want to eat it with. It's normally duck with Pinot Noir, but I could also do this with a nice piece of salmon with a heartier sauce or pork with a creamier sauce. Whatever you eat it with, this is a really nice bottle of Pinot Noir, whoever made it. |
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