Hirsch Vineyards Pinot Noir Reserve Sonoma Coast 2014 750ml

David Hirsch planted his vineyard on the remote ridges of the far Sonoma Coast in 1980, and Hirsch has since become one of California's benchmark sources of cool-climate Pinot Noir. The Reserve is a blend of the top-performing old-vine parcels across the estate. In 2014 it is powerful and deep, with dried cherry, wild cherry, mint, pink hibiscus and crushed flowers wrapped in spice and a mineral, slightly austere frame that broadens with air. Wine & Spirits described it as "meant for the cellar rather than immediate pleasure." Now more than a decade on, that structure has begun to soften, and it should drink well over the next several years.