Collectors Lot 205
WILLIAMS SELYEM
3 – 750 ml bottles each – 30 bottles total
Williams Selyem Pinot Noir Allen Vineyard 2008
A joy to drink now, and will develop over a decade or more. A dry, pure, focused wine whose intricately detailed cherry, cola and cranberry flavors are enhanced by minerally things from the earth and a near-perfect application of oak. Wine Enthusiast 96
Williams Selyem Pinot Noir Hirsch Vineyard 2008
Dazzles with richness, offering waves of candied, tart raspberry and cherry fruit, Dr. Pepper, exotic Indian spice, rose petal and sandalwood flavors, as well as undefinable feral things. Absolutely dry and high in acidity, with overwhelming complexity, it’s a milestone. Wine Enthusiast 97
Williams Selyem Pinot Noir Flax Vineyard 2008
This wine has ripe, more serious aromas of dark fruits, smoke and licorice, with suggestions of mocha and tobacco. It is fat, sweet and low-toned, with a building minerality giving lift and shape to the mid-palate. This has more stuffing to support its more obvious tannins, and its lingering finish features solid thrust and blackberry and cherry notes. Stephen Tanzer IWC 90+
Williams Selyem Pinot Noir Bucher Vineyard 2008
Rich and complex, with tight, dense, loamy earth, raspberry and wild berry fruit that’s fresh and vivid, this wine is well-focused and full-bodied, ending with wonderful complexity and intensity. WS 94
Williams Selyem Pinot Noir Coastlands Vineyard 2008
This wine possesses blueberry, forest floor and spring flowers in its complex set of aromatics. Tart acids are present, but this is an example where the concentration and fruit extract stand up to the acidic nature of this style of Pinot. Fresh and lively RP 90
Williams Selyem Pinot Noir Weir Vineyard 2008
This wine is deep red with sexy aromas of raspberry, blackberry, cola, minerals and incense. It is wonderfully precise and vibrant, with terrific cut to its intense flavors of red berry preserves and candied rose. Still youthfully tight and bound-up but gains flesh with air. It is slightly rounded on the back end, finishing with excellent grip and chewy persistence. Stephen Tanzer IWC 92+
Williams Selyem Pinot Noir Ferrington 2008
This offering is generously fruited and very rich with both suppleness and a touch of silk that carry it across the palate. Its style might tempt early drinking, but the very long finish and good balance will earn it a place in the cellar for a half decade’s rest. Of course, if you want to drink one wine from this special group, this one might be it if only because it is so delightfully deep even now. Connoisseurs Guide 93
Williams Selyem Pinot Noir Eastside Road Neighbors 2008
This is delightfully complex and classy, with ripe plum, black cherry and raspberry aromas. Firm, loamy tannins give the flavors traction. It is full-bodied and intense, yet elegant and delicate. WS 94
Williams Selyem Pinot Noir Peay Vineyard 2008
Medium ruby, with complex aromatics reminiscent of a premier cru from the Cote de Beaune, the strawberry, black cherry and foresty notes of this wine are hard to resist. This wine is medium-bodied, elegant, restrained, but beautifully fruited and seductive. RP 90
Williams Selyem Pinot Noir Vista Verde 2008
This wine has complex, heady aromas of black raspberry, mocha, incense, smoky minerals and dried flowers. Rich and lush on entry, then sappy and juicy in the middle, with terrific mineral and floral lift to its sweet dark berry and spicecake flavors. It finishes sweetly perfumed and very long, with thoroughly buffered tannins and a whiplash of candied flowers. Stephen Tanzer’s IWC 93
Donated by Kathleen and Michael Glassman
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