JK CARRIERE PINOT NOIR PROVOCATEUR 750ML

Limpid, brilliant, garnet is the color. The nose reveals passionfruit, spice, oak, fennel then broadens to chocolate Necco wafer and the enticing “burnt ends” of BBQ brisket. The palate shows cherry and citrus, leaning on orange. Give it some air, and it ends as a highly drinkable cherry Jolly Rancher. The 2023 vintage was our most cutting-edge and intense farming year yet. In addition to our certified organics and dry farming we threw everything at it — sheep, sap-flow pruning, compost tea, 24-element xylem/phloem analysis-based nutrition, high-mowing cover crop, and on-farm built compost at scale. In the measure of warm/power vs. cool/grace of the vintage the needle fell pretty close to midnight. We’ll take that. -Winery