Hartford 2007 Seven’s Bench Pinot Noir (Carneros)

Country: US / Seven’s Bench
Variety: Pinot Noir California
Winery: Hartford / Carneros

There’s a sweet fruit and pastry quality to this wine that’s reminiscent of a cherry tart, with its vanilla, brown sugar, cinnamon and smoky buttery pie crust flavors. It’s very delicious but also brilliantly structured as a wine, with fine tannins and a sunburst of citrusy acids. One of the best Carneros Pinots of the vintage, it will provide pleasurable drinking now–2013 at the least.