2016 Rhys Vineyards Alesia Pinot Noir Anderson Valley 750 ml

Limited Pinot Noir from Rhys Vineyards

The 2016 Rhys Alesia Pinot Noir Anderson Valley is one of the best values in the Rhys portfolio, doubling the urgency to pick up a few bottles of this prized allocation. While one can stumble upon Rhys Vineyards wines by the bottle at Thomas Keller’s The French Laundry, SF’s Spruce and Michael Mina, Cupertino’s Alexander’s Steakhouse, and NYC’s The Modern, this is a rare opportunity to obtain this particular bottle.

If you or someone you know has obtained a Rhys Vineyards wine, chances are it was due to their mailing list, and that’s not even a guarantee—Rhys enjoys cult status and frankly, we’re thrilled and fortunate to secure this allocation for you. “Rhys is world class,” says Antonio Galloni of Vinous. “It's as simple as that.”

But this wine is anything but simple. Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate called it “unabashedly delicious,” and we’re calling it the Anderson Valley poster-child of vitality—packed with fresh berry, laced with herbs de Provence, and allied with integrated, finely-structured tannins.

Burgundian sensibilities from meticulously-farmed California vineyards have earned Rhys embarrassingly generous critical accolades, but Kevin Harvey and the team at Rhys would rather talk nitty gritty about the vines and the cellar. "Rhys's obsessively planted and tended vineyards are currently producing some of the most ambitious Pinot Noir being made anywhere in the world,” writes Jancis Robinson MW. Pause here: Anywhere. In. The. World.

Kevin Harvey’s eye for the best sites in California led him to Bearwallow vineyard in the deep end of the Anderson Valley. Enjoying a view of redwoods, the steep vineyard-covered hills are high-density planted and wholly hand-harvested. Back in the cellar the fruit is treated like delicate royalty with native fermentation in one-ton tanks and maturation on the less in proprietary François Frères oak barrels. The result, a world-class Pinot that will “drink well for a decade, perhaps more” according to the Wine Advocate. Secure yours now, before the opportunity passes you by.