Williams Selyem 2018 Pinot Noir Russian River Valley
Williams Selyem 2018 Pinot Noir (Russian River Valley)
NVWE Notes: The RRV is always a racy bottling, yet there is more density and earthy spice in the 2018. The nose offers focused scents of sour red cherry, red raspberry, pomegranate, whortleberry, blueberry, hazelnut nougat and nutmeg. The wine is sleek in texture and zesty on the palate, where there is fine concentration to the mouth-coating flavors of black cherry, red boysenberry, blueberry, whortleberry, grenadine, blood orange and apricot galette. The finish is supple and lingering and the food-balance is already superb, yet the patient will see a much more gorgeous wine in three or four years.
Wine Enthusiast 95 Points
Lush and earthy in all the right ways, this appellation wine is effusive and floral in a lovely bouquet of wild rose. Bright red fruit persists through the structured and well-integrated body, with fresh acidity and accents of black tea and cardamom lifting it up. Virginie Boone 9/1/2020