Very pale garnet, the 2019 Pinot Noir Shea Vineyard has sour cherries, woodsmoke and earth aromas on the nose. The palate is light-bodied, soft, juicy and somewhat dilute with a short finish.

Medium ruby-purple, the 2016 Pinot Noir Shea Vineyard offers aromas of cranberry jelly, warm blackberries, red currant, licorice, dried earth and roses. The palate is medium-bodied and perfumed with a sturdy frame and seamless freshness, finishing long. 920 cases produced.

The 2014 Pinot Noir Shea Vineyard has an attractive bouquet with lively aromas of wild strawberry, blackberry, iris and a subtle menthol notes that skulk in through aeration in the glass. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannin, crisp acidity, gentle at first, but quite intense towards the finish with touches of blood orange, spice and sous-bois infusing the red fruit. This is very fine.

The 2013 Pinot Noir Shea Vineyard comes from vines planted between 2002 and 2005 in Block 6 within the vineyard. There is a ferrous tincture on the nose that infuses the red berry fruit, quite fresh vis-a-via St Innocent's other 2013 Pinot Noirs, a touch of gypsum emerging with time in the glass. The palate is medium-bodied with redcurrant and cranberry notes, a fine backbone here with just the right amount of salinity on the structured finish. Give this a year or two in bottle and it should drink well for another decade.

The 2012 Shea Vineyard 2012 was fermented in two fermenters without sulfur addition and is aged in French oak for 16 months, 20% new oak. It has a pretty bouquet, very pure with cranberry, wild strawberry and fig with a touch of honey and marmalade lending a little exoticism, the leitmotif of the growing season. The palate is medium-bodied with rounded tannin, dusky black fruit, well-judged acidity, but surprisingly backward toward the finish. There is good density to this Pinot Noir, a firm backbone with sufficient salinity on the finish to urge another sip.