Smockshop Band Pinot Noir Columbia Gorge

Had a bottle at a Dominique Crenshaw spot a few years ago and it blew my mind. This bottle was lovely with loads of blackberry and great structure but a little less bramble and a little more bandaid on this one. Still complex and vibrant. Drank while building an IKEA dresser.

i found this a tasty, succulent PN. my onoy quibble is a slight overachievement of acid over fruit, but a much better PN than most other west coast wines.

Smockshop Band is a side project from Nate Reddy and the Hiyu team intended to showcase all that Columbia Gorge has to offer. Unlike literally everything else from Hiyu, this is a terrific value. It’s a rustic mix of red fruits and perfumed acetone - plenty of VA but the far reaching aromatic type that registers deep like a perfume. Unfiltered, robust, tannic, and full of deep cherry, dried strawberry, and sour blackberry.