($57): Merry Edwards’ Meredith Estate Pinot Noir has a lot in common with the Klopp Ranch bottling in that it’s weighty but not heavy and has Merry Edwards’ signature, a plush texture.  But worthy of a single vineyard bottling, it’s distinctive.  More tightly wound, befitting a young wine, it evolves nicely over an hour in the glass with earthy elements appearing.  It’s a bolder wine with more concentration and far more oak influence showing at this stage. It, like the Klopp Ranch and Flax Vineyard, deserve a few years in the cellar.  Her straight Russian River bottling is the one to reach uncork for tonight’s dinner.
94 Michael Apstein May 6, 2014