Country: US / Ocean’s Ghost
Variety: Pinot Noir California
Winery: Babcock / Sta. Rita Hills
Veteran vintner Bryan Babcock offers a ripe style in this bottling, with showy aromas of strawberry, blackberry, graphite, pipe smoke and roasted meats. It’s big and dense on the palate, with dried strawberry and squeezed pomegranate fruits, brown spice of cloves, allspice, nutmeg and gingerbread, and the tart cut of orange juice.