Evesham Wood Le Puits Sec Pinot Noir 2022

Evesham Wood Le Puits Sec Pinot Noir 2022

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97 points Decanter: "What a beautiful Pinot Noir from the Evesham Wood estate Le Puits Sec, with 85% of this wine coming from the older vine, 1986 plantings. Aromatics of smoky rose petals and dried violets are buoyed by notes of wild mint, tea tree oil and a seaspray saline note that goes on and on. The palate is delicate, refined and yet so energetic. Mouthfuls of vibrant red cranberries, a spritz of blood orange and delightfully spiced wild strawberries. The cool 2022 vintage has set this wine up perfectly, it's brilliantly harmonious now, and it will age for aeons. Burgundy, eat your heart out.

Here's the crazy thing: can and should our advice to buy J every year be applied to Le Puits Sec? For many years we experienced a notable step up from Le Puits Sec to J but over the last three vintages, that step has flattened—one is not necessarily better than the other, they are just different expressions of Evesham Wood's estate vineyard. So the answer is yes.

LPS '22 is bright and bristling with energy; the fruit quality nearly crunches from its electric Pinot current. It's so freshly aromatic, beautiful scents leap from the glass. I really wanted to drink the whole bottle when I opened it—it's that kind of wine. The longer it's opened the denser it becomes, where you feel the layers that'll allow LPS to age. Sensational and silky for enjoying now and based on the ultra-fresh 2010 Le Puits Sec from my cellar I had last week, capable of aging just about as long as you like. Why are we even still talking about red Burgundy when there are wines like this? (Burgundy fans, this is tongue in cheek...mostly ;-) -Marcus

What a gorgeous wine. The nose jumps out of the glass with concentrated aromas of plum, violet and berries. That lift and concentration carries through as the mixed berries become even more concentrated while beautifully balanced bright acidity leads to moderate tannins on the finish. This is why Erin came to Le Puits Sec in 2007 and never left. - Erin Nuccio

2017 vintage notes

96 points Decanter, Top-Scoring Oregon Pinot: An impressive wine from a dry-farmed, certified organic 1.8ha vineyard, first planted in 1986. Superbly elegant violet-tinged cherry fruit with a hint of spice, developing gracefully to take on a smoky subtlety and supple depth, showing hints of freshly turned earth. The texture is seductively silky and delicate, yet there is rewarding density and length. Drinking Window 2021 - 2030

Le Puits Sec 2017 is beautiful. Wonderfully cool in it's aromatic profile, like the best vintages of Le Puits Sec it's a wine I'd open just to smell. Effusively red in fruit, woven with sweet notes of the sun warming a Douglas fir tree, with a pinch of rosemary blossoms. The flavor and the feel are equally beguiling. I've been thinking of how to capture the texture: weightless and silky, for sure, yet with microscopically-fine molecules of flavor that burst and multiply through the finish. If, like me, you enjoy drinking the bottled energy that is young Pinot noir, then I say open with abandon, enjoy over two to three days. Like the best vintages of LPS, there will be plenty in my cellar because I'm certain of the magic that'll build with time. - Marcus

 

 


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