Tasting Notes
Jeb Dunnuck 95
Grown on pink sandstone soils, the 2020 Pinot Noir Helenthal Old Shop Block has more raspberry fruit, with fresh crushed flowers and a touch of cinnamon stick. The palate is fully dry and fresh with strawberry fruit, forest herbs, and super-fine tannins. Drink over the next 15 or more years.
Vinous 93
The 2020 Pinot Noir Hellenthal Old Shop Block is bright and nicely focused. Crushed red berry fruit, spice, cedar, tobacco and dried flowers all open in the glass. The 2020 is a very pretty and effusive wine. It perhaps lacks the mid-palate depth of the very best years, but it was made from only two of the three parcels that typically go into the blend. The third parcel, the last to ripen, is used to add weight to this wine, but that fruit was compromised by fires in 2020.