A supple, savory texture meets effortless complexity, with distinctive blueberry and cherry flavors that are accented with steely minerality and dusky spice, building structure and intensity toward refined tannins. Drink now through 2030. 375 cases made. — TF

The La Source cuvée from Evening Land hails from the parcel of vines at the top of the hillside in Seven Springs, with a steep incline and plenty of afternoon and evening winds coming in here through the Van Duzer Corridor. The wine is raised in roughly thirty percent new oak and the 2018 version comes in at an even fourteen percent in this warm growing season, offering up a superb bouquet of black cherries, plums, gamebird, woodsmoke, a hint of anise, dark soil tones, a touch of fresh herbs and a deft foundation of cedary oak. On the palate the wine is deep, pure and full, with a rock solid core of fruit, excellent mineral drive and grip, ripe tannins and a long, tangy, nascently complex and impeccably balanced finish. This is a dynamite bottle of pinot noir in the making, but it will need some time alone in the cellar to blossom.

The 2018 Pinot Noir La Source is ripe, with notions of berry jam, fruitcake and aniseed on the nose. The palate is full, lush and ripe but brighter and more lifted than the nose leads you to expect, and it finishes long and flavorful.- EB