The 2020 Pinot Noir Keefer Ranch was harvested September 10-15 and matured for 16 months in 43% new oak. It has a medium ruby color and a core of wild berry fruit with tones of tea leaves, lavender and woodsmoke. The medium-bodied palate is grainy and gently rustic with a moderate core of fruit, just enough freshness and a spicy finish. Drink it over the next 2-3 years.

Aged 19 months in 42% new French and 2% new Austrian oak, including just 1% whole cluster, the pale to medium ruby colored 2017 Pinot Noir Keefer Ranch is youthfully shy, with time giving scents of rosewater, tangerine peel, woodsmoke, crushed cranberries and raspberries with earth and bitters accents. Medium-bodied, it's open for business in the mouth, flooding the palate with perfumed red berry fruits. It has a frame of gently grainy tannins and well-woven freshness, finishing long and spicy. This property is now half-owned by Kosta Browne (Schramsberg owns the other half). 2,400 cases produced.

Aged 16 months in 46% new French oak, the 2016 Pinot Noir Keefer Ranch is pale to medium ruby with scents of violet, lilac, pink peppercorn, crushed raspberries and red cherry preserves with blood orange peel, forest floor and bitters. The palate is medium-bodied, über silky and explodes with spicy red berry flavors, wrapped in a softly grainy frame and with seamless freshness on the long, spicy finish. 2,900 cases produced.

Coming from the Russian River Valley and an estate vineyard that was purchased in 2012, the rich, gorgeously layered and textured 2014 Pinot Noir Keefer Ranch Vineyard offers an exotic fruit profile, with notions of cassis, passion fruit, spice and dried flowers all emerging from the glass. Full-bodied, layered and rich, yet with the purity and precision that's present in all of these 2014s, drink bottles anytime over the coming decade, and I certainly wouldn't be surprised to see it keep for longer.

The 2013 Pinot Noir Keefer Ranch Vineyard comes from a 20-acre site in the Russian River Valley, acquired by this team two years ago. Harvest between September 20th and October 7th, completely destemmed and aged 16 months in 55% new French oak, it has awesome richness and freshness in its cassis, black raspberry, crushed rock and subtle vanilla bean/sweet oak bouquet. This gives way to a rich, layered, elegant red that has the balance and class to evolve nicely for a decade.