The 2017 Pinot Noir is one of the darkest Pinot Noirs on the table. It shows restraint and balance in the mouth like no other—the whole bunch lends a peaty character to the wine and balances the beautiful red and black fruit in the mouth. This is a wine of balance. It has light (where things grow in abundance) and shade (where lichen and undergrowth rule), and both are in balance with the other—a symbiotic relationship if there ever was one. It pulses with a return flow of in-breath and out-breath.