A barrel selection of lots the winery has to choose from, this is Failla’s highest priced Pinot. It’s clearly a very fine wine, dry, crisp in coastal acidity and complex. The flavors now range from cherries and currants to cola and tomato juice, wrapped into firm tannins. Not showing delicacy or opulence now, but a Pinot Noir to cellar. Better after 2013.——S.H.(12/31/2010)—— 92

This small- production wine showcases the wild, feral and lonely personality of this winery’s extreme coastal mountain location, offering the most exotic flavors that are hard to describe. Asian pears, pomegranates, Dr. Pepper cola, red currants, licorice, bacon and rare berries like mulberries and loganberries come to mind. It’s softly delicious and drinkable now, yet has a firm acidic structure that suggests aging into the future. It will be fascinating to watch this wine develop over the next decade.——S.H.(12/31/2009)—— 97