Soljans Estate Pinot Noir Barrique Réserve

The name is Barrique Reserve and the wood is evident. It's way too much. The fruit is decent, not over extracted but it cannot handle the wood treatment. They should have let the fruit express itself without much of a wood treatment. After some time the complexity emerges and it would be much better but for the wood. - The first smell when the bottle was opened was wood. After being opened an hour some nice savory tertiary notes of …