Bodega Headlands Vineyard Cuvée Elizabeth, Sonoma Coast, Occidental (Kistler)

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The 2021 Pinot Noir Bodega Headlands Vineyard Cuvée Elizabeth is powerfully structured and will be long lived in the cellar. Medium ruby-purple in color, the nose is bursting with pomegranate, rhubarb and blueberry, and as it opens in the glass, it reveals nuances of hibiscus, pipe tobacco and Earl Grey tea. On the palate, its iron-laced red fruit is structured by chiseled tannins and linear acidity, and it has a very long finish laced with botanical tones. It offers the same purity and expression as the 2019 but gives the sense that, once it closes down in bottle, it will require several years in the cellar to come back around. Erin Brooks