2021 Joshua Cooper Wines Ray-Monde Vineyard Pinot Noir
Reviewed by Erin Larkin
Issue Date 7th Oct 2022
Source October 2022 Week 1, The Wine Advocate
Rating 95 points
Release Price NA
Drink Date 2022 - 2032
The characters on the nose of the 2021 Ray-Monde Vineyard Pinot Noir are mostly black (but by that, I do not mean heavy): graphite, tea, steel, coal dust, pepper, blackberries and blueberry skin. In the mouth, the wine has nutmeg, musk, jasmine tea, blood plum and black cats. The wine is so evocative and of place that it drags you back into it over and over again. I think our New World power with Pinot Noir rests with wines like this?with wines that speak of place and soil, dirt and sky. They must be tethered to a spot so that they can take us there. And this is. Yes.