Showing quite a bit of tannins and acids, this is a very young wine, of a kind that isn’t seen all that much in Russian River Valley these days. Swan makes their Pinots the old-fashioned way, for aging. Dry and astringent, the wine has a deep core of cherry and blackberry fruit, almost like a Merlot, except for the silkiness. Stick this in your cellar until 2008, at least.——S.H.(8/1/2007)—— 90