91 POINTS - "Medium ruby-colored, it offers notes of cedar, cinnamon, clove, cassis, and raspberry. This is followed by a medium- to full-bodied wine with layers of complex red fruits, enough structure to evolve for 3-4 years, excellent integration of oak, tannin, and acidity, and a lengthy finish. Drink it from 2010 to 2018. " — Robert Parker's The Wine Adocate

92 POINTS -“Smooth and round, with a lovely polished feel to the dark berry, cherry, licorice and spice flavors, flowing easily over finely tuned tannins, persisting expressively. Drink now through 2016.” - Wine Spectator

ONE OF THE YEAR'S BEST PINOT NOIRS - "Serene's flagship reserve is forward and ripe, the red berry and woodsy scents marked by oak. Yet the wine retains a pleasant lift, the black cherry flavors brightening with air and the acidity fresh and clean." — Wine & Spirit's Magazine

TASTING NOTES
A ripe, hedonistic vintage, this wine offers consistency with a host of late summer rubus fruits (think boysen and olallie berries) balanced with a heady, floral perfume of violet and lavender and a touch of sweet smoke.  The palate is a journey from luscious peach and wild strawberry with vanilla cola, hints of dark chocolate and tar, and finishes with lifted raspberry flavors that linger and mingle back to recall the depth of initial aromas.  Supple tannins frame this wine with gracefully equipoised structure. - M. Eleni Papadakis, Winemaker

VINEYARD
Blend of Pommard (27%), Dijon (55%) and Wadenswil (18%) clones of Pinot Noir sourced primarily from estate vineyards grown in the Dundee Hills (59%) and Eola Hills (41%).

CROP YIELD & AGING
1.85 tons/acre. Aged 15 months in French oak barrels of which 48% were new.