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A Cabernet Lover's Pinot Noir

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    2018 Argot Wines Pinot Noir Bastard Tongue Sonoma County 750 ml

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    Bold, Boundary-Breaking Pinot Noir from Russell Bevan Protégé

    Argot founder and winemaker Justin Harmon isn't your average winemaker. The California juggernaut behind the Bastard Tongue is a daring vintner who learned from the best: 100-point icon Russell Bevan. Today, that powerful style and opulent precision is on full display in Harmon's Bastard Tongue Pinot Noir, a tiny-production gem we leapt to secure. 

    Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate didn't hold back in terms of these wines, noting “Only a decade into his career, this is the early work of a star in the making." This new release opening with inviting aromas of black cherry and raspberry before giving way to supporting notes of baking spice, incense, and lightly toasted cedar. The long finish, driven by baking spice notes from French oak make this a wine that begs to be popped open and enjoyed right now... though we'd love to see this with a touch of cellar age.  

    After falling in love with wine as a consumer, Harmon was desperate to make wine. He was desperate enough to experiment with a concentrate kit that he vinified in his parents’ basement near Chicago. He wanted it badly enough that he then had flash-frozen grapes shipped out to the Midwest, where he thawed them out and made wine in a 35-gallon garbage can. He was so determined that he located a winery that needed help and flew all the way out to Sonoma County—for one day of work.

    Fortunately for Harmon, the winemaker who accepted his help back in 2005 was Russell Bevan, the self-taught Cabernet master who has since racked up multiple 100-point wines, but at the time was working on his very first vintage. Bevan allowed Harmon to return for the 2006 harvest. But at the end of the season, when Harmon approached Bevan about working there the next year, Bevan has some advice for the young winemaker: Start your own label. With sourcing help from Bevan and the use of his new winemaking facility, Argot was born in 2007.

    Today, wines like Argot's Bastard Tongue are a beacon for California terroir. Don't miss out.