You’ll discover Papapietro Perry in a quaint tasting room in Sonoma’s equally quaint Dry Creek Valley. The main focus right here has lengthy been on pinot noir, and at present we have a look at two new pinot releases from two totally different elements of the county.
2020 Papapietro Perry Pinot Noir Sonoma Coast – Effusive however not dense, this coastal pinot comes off as barely jammy, its cherry and raspberry core filtered by way of notes of rhubarb earlier than segueing right into a extra easy strawberry pie character. Turning gently nutty with overtones of chocolate and a contact of tannin because it develops, there’s a sprinkle of powdered sugar on the end that maybe matches with the theme however which can come off as a contact too candy. Decanting is a giant plus on this wine, or a strong quantity of air time in glass. A- / $61
2020 Papapietro Perry Pinot Noir Russian River Valley – Reasonably denser, with a meatier, extra forceful core. Stuffed full with fruit — plums and cherries in roughly equal proportion — the wine slowly evolves in glass to showcase notes of black tea and cola, then strikes right into a physique of cola and jammy blackberry, barely candy however tempered with notes of graphite and turned earth. Chewy and rounded, there’s extra complexity to this RRV bottling than the Sonoma Coast expression — which is one thing of a shock — with extra citrusy brightness lingering on the end. A / $61
2020 Papapietro Perry Pinot Noir Russian River Valley
$61
