The Freestone Hill bottling is one of Dutton Goldfield’s biggest and most powerful Pinot Noirs, and the ’06 is nearly as stunning as the magnificent ’05. It just explodes in the mouth with succulent cherry and raspberry pie, mocha and spicy anise and pepper flavors, with fabulous complexities from smoky oak. Terrific now, but the tannins will hold it for a decade.——S.H.(3/1/2009)—— 94

This is ageable and enormously complex, and should do very interesting things over the next six years. Right now it is tight and fresh in primary fruits and acidity. It’s an enormously rich wine, vast in black cherries, pomegranates, cola, red plums, balsam and sauteed mushroom flavors, with a gamy, forest-floor earthiness. Time in the bottle can only improve it through 2011.——S.H.(12/1/2007)—— 96