La Crema Pinot Noir Anderson Valley

Bright red cherry and cranberry lead, with a cool, forest-edge lift of dried herbs and damp leaf. The palate is light-to-medium in weight, crisp and linear, carrying that red fruit cleanly through the mid-palate before finishing with a noticeable touch of acrid bitterness on the back end—more herbal and stem-tinged than oak-driven—tightening the finish and slightly clipping the fruit’s generosity. Average in quality, below average in value if at $55.