Bravium Anderson Valley Pinot Noir 2022
“The soon to be released bottling of Pinot Noir from the 2022 vintage from Derek Rohlffs at Bravium Wines is excellent. The wine comes in at a very civilized 13.3 percent octane in this vintage and offers up a vibrant bouquet of cherries, beetroot, incipient notes of cola, woodsmoke, gamebird, fresh herbs and a gentle framing of new oak. On the palate the wine is bright, full- bodied, focused and nicely sappy at the core, with good soil undertow, fine-grained tannins, tangy acids and excellent balance on the long, complex and promising finish. This is so beautifully seamless in its youth that it is certainly quite drinkable out of the blocks, but there are layers of complexity here still waiting to unfold and I would cellar the wine for at least a handful of years and properly let those secondary layers emerge fully. Fine juice.”
—John Gilman
