A bright but transparent magenta hue, the 2022 Pinot Noir Durant Vineyard is all about sapidity, with resinous fresh herbs, fresh wild black raspberries, strawberries, and fresh earth, and it has an airy feel, with refreshing sweet earth and self-rooted vines. Medium-bodied, it offers ripe tannins and a lush texture, with a long finish. It stays fresh and lifted, buoyant yet rounded. Drink 2024-2040.
96 points, Audrey Frick, Jeb Dunnuck (Aug 2024)
The 2022 vintage is the first that Kelley Fox has worked with fruit from the famed Durant Vineyard. The two blocks that Kelley sources the fruit here from were planted in 1973 and 1984 respectively, both on ungrafted, franc de pied rootstock. The debut vintage comes in at 13.5 percent alcohol and delivers a truly stunning, refined aromatic constellation of cherries, red plums, pomegranate, gamebird, distant bonfire, fresh nutmeg, cloves, cumin, a beautifully complex base of soil tones, peonies and a touch of cedary oak. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied and very transparent down to its underlying soils, with a lovely core of red fruit, tangy acids, fine-grained tannins, flawless balance and grip and a very long, very complex and vibrant finish. This is another 2022 pinot noir from Kelley that has simply magical backend energy and lift. It is an utterly remarkable young wine!
96 points, John Gilman, View From The Cellar (Dec 2025)
The 2022 Pinot Noir Durant Vineyard comes from own-rooted vines planted in 1973 and 1984. “I love self-rooted vines,” proprietor and winemaker Kelley Fox says. “Having this graft, there’s something that is lost and fuzzy in that translation.” Grapes were destemmed, and the wine was matured in used French oak. The nose is bursting with pomegranate, blueberry, blood orange and lilac aromas. The palate is slender with lacy, tea-like tannins and vibrant acidity, though its flavors are concentrated and highly perfumed, and it has a long, latent finish. Only 104 cases were made.
95 points, Erin Brooks, Wine Advocate (Dec 2024)
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