Staff Notes:
"This wine is made by William Kelley, better know these days as The Wine Advocate’s Burgundy specialist (amongst his many hats he wears over there). As he notes, “it is produced from Clarksburg grapes using Kalin Cellars methods” and comes in at a cool and racy 12.1 percent octane. The wine is barrel-fermented and then aged in neural casks for ten to twelve months prior to bottling. The wine is outstanding, offering up a pure, youthful and complex bouquet of quince, green apple, beeswax, lanolin, dried flowers and a lovely base of chalky soil tones. On the palate the wine is bright, full-bodied and rock solid at the core, with excellent focus and grip, a lovely girdle of acidity and a long, nascently complex finish. This is still a young wine, and though it is tasty, it deserves a few years in the cellar to really start to blossom and show some secondary layers of complexity. This is a lovely wine that will age many, many years, will be more complex with some bottle age, and is an absolute steal at its price!" 91+ Points John Gilman, View From the Cellar