2014 | Rivers-Marie | Summa Vineyard Pinot Noir

The nose and palate both have the classic Summa orange/red fruit profile with a touch of savory-ness perhaps due to the first ever inclusion of the interplant block.

Reviews:

• Vinous: Floral and savory notes are pushed forward in the 2014 Pinot Noir Summa Vineyard. Pliant and resonant on the palate, the Summa is a bit deeper than the Old Vines, but also less finessed, especially in this vintage. Interestingly, the Summa is quite a bit fleshier than the Old Vines, which is a bit counterintuitive. Savory herbs, crushed flowers, anise and dark cherry add the final shades of nuance.

• Allen Meadows: There is a vaguely liqueur-like quality to the pure essence of red berries that exhibit a wide range of spice and floral characters. The sleek and silky medium-bodied flavors possess a sophisticated mouth feel thanks to the supporting fine-grained tannins that also shape the beautifully well-balanced and highly persistent finale. This will need a few years to better develop additional depth but the underling material should be up to the challenge.

Producer Information

Rivers-Marie is a wine producer based in Calistoga, Napa Valley, but primarily known for its small-production Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir and Chardonnay wines. It was founded by husband-and-wife team Thomas Rivers Brown and Genevieve Marie Walsh, and made its first vintage of Pinot Noir in 2002. Rivers-Marie wines are sold exclusively through a mailing list, with annual production ranging from 60 to 600 cases per label. Winemaker Thomas Brown got his start in the wine industry working under Ehren Jordan at Turley Wine Cellars. In 2002, he had the opportunity to purchase fruit from the respected Summa Vineyard, a two-hectare (six-acre) site planted in 1978. Brown purchased the Summa Vineyard outright in 2010 and today produces two single-vineyard Pinot Noir wines from the vineyard, as well as single-vineyard Pinot Noir wines from Occidental Ridge Vineyard, Kanzler Vineyard and Silver Eagle Vineyard. Rivers-Marie began making Chardonnay in 2007, and today makes single-vineyard wines from the Thieriot and Joy Road vineyards, as well as a generic Sonoma Coast cuvée. The winery also makes several Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon wines, including single-vineyard bottlings from Calistoga, St Helena and Oakville. As well as Rivers-Marie, Brown is involved in numerous winemaking projects across California.

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