Lingua Franca, Avni Pinot Noir Vintage:2015

Lingua Franca, Avni Pinot Noir Vintage:2015Deep red. A complex bouquet evokes fresh dark berries, candied rose, smoky minerals and black pepper. Juicy, subtly sweet and focused on the palate, offering bitter cherry, raspberry and floral pastille flavors that turn deeper and spicier as the wine opens up. Closes smoky, juicy and quite long, with youthfully firm tannins contributing grip and focus. Josh Raynolds

vanilla and dark fruits

this is a complete wine of simply fantastic length

there is a sense of a winery changing tack and in my opinion

the underlying material is quite good so this tightly wound effort could very well develop enough depth to be at the next level

and extraordinary flavor richness with notes of blackberries

crisp red fruits (wild strawberry and cranberry) with a sharp

muscle and mid-palate density to the medium-bodied flavors that coat the palate with dry extract on the almost painfully intense mineral-driven finish that flashes a bit of youthful austerity

don’t hesitate

finishing with a mineral lift

The exceptionally rich and powerful large-scaled flavors brim with palate staining dry extract that imparts a seductive but also borderline chewy texture to the explosive and still very tightly wound finish

delivering black cherries and black olives in equal measure

if discreet