Medium ruby-purple, the 2019 Pinot Noir Clone 115 features red and blue berries on the nose with touches of baking spice, citrus peel and potpourri. The palate is medium-bodied, soft and juicy with spicy fruits and an uplifted finish.

Medium ruby, the 2017 Pinot Noir Clone 115 has scents of green tobacco, woodsmoke, bergamot and peppercorn over concentrated red cherries, rhubarb and cranberry with licorice hints. Medium-bodied, it opens in the mouth to floral notions with wonderfully ripe, concentrated, spiced fruit knit by grainy tannins and great freshness, finishing long and flavorful.

The 2016 Pinot Noir Clone 115, which derives from a south-facing hillside within Ashley's Vineyard, offers up notes of red and black cherries, coniferous forest floor, raw cocoa and new oak. On the palate, the wine is supple, quite open-knit and a little diffuse, missing some of the concentration, depth and complexity that one finds in some of Fess Parker's other Pinot Noirs this year.

The 2015 Pinot Noir Clone 115 has a pale to medium ruby-purple color and is scented of dried Provence herbs, underbrush and mossy bark with a core of warm cranberries and red currants, plus a touch of lavender. The medium-bodied palate is firmly structured with chewy tannins and seamless freshness, finishing with persistent earthy notes.

From a single clone planted in the Rancho Las Hermanas Vineyard in the Sta. Rite Hills, the 2014 Pinot Noir Clone 115 has lots of sweet oak in its black raspberry, cassis, spice and licorice-scented bouquet. This gives way to a medium plus bodied Pinot Noir that has terrific purity, notable freshness and a great finish. Like the other releases here, it is a ripe, classic Cali Pinot to drink over the coming 4-5 years.