Country: US / Bien Nacido Vyd Reserve
Variety: Pinot Noir California
Winery: Fetzer / Santa Barbara County
Making strides for admittance to the Big Boy’s Club is Fetzer, with reserve wines like this. A plush, complex, elegant beauty, with classic Bien Nacido notes of sun-dried tomatoes, hard spices and black-cherry fruit, with the required French oak influences. It’s a young wine that needs a year or so to open up.