Brick House Evelyn's Pinot Noir 2015

Professional Ratings

• 94 Wine Enthusiast
  This barrel selection is a 50-50 blend of Pommard and Dijon clone Pinot Noir, all biodynamically farmed. It's spicy and complex, with cranberry, orange peel and lemon aromas. Those flavors are in the mix, along with black cherry, clean earth and dashes of cola and sassafras. A glorious wine, it should be enjoyed now through the late 2020s.
• 93 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
  Pale to medium ruby-purple colored, the 2015 Pinot Noir Evelyn's is a little youthfully mute, conjuring notions of red currants and pomegranate with hints of wild thyme, yeast extract, damp loam and mossy bark. Light to medium-bodied, the palate has a wonderfully fine-grained texture supporting elegant, delicate fruit, finishing with long-lasting savory and spice notes.
• 92 Wine Spectator
  Soft, supple and delicate, with floral cherry and dark tea aromas and elegantly complex raspberry and smoky spice flavors that glide along the finish. Drink now through 2023. 500 cases made.
• 92 Wine & Spirits
  A reserve named for Doug Tunnell’s mother, Evelyn’s is a barrel selection that usually ends up being a clonal selection as well. Like Les Dijonnais (also recommended here), it’s a dark thing, with a balsamic spice that recedes with air. It’s spry and lifted, yielding an array of spices and becoming more streamlined as it opens, with a fine lacy acid structure that should lend it some ageability.