David Bruce Pinot Noir Santa Maria Valley

Fairly intense PN. On the darker side of garnet in the glass. The nose is clean, fresh, with a deep purple-red fruit, a varietal spice, and certainly rose pedals and violets, almost soapy but not unpleasantly so. Then, there is an underlying earth tone, a clean minerality of soil in there. The attack is a velvet wave with just-right acidity, sweet fruit, balance, ending on spice. Spry and spicy, not heavy or jammy. High alc at 14.5% so it benefits …