Rhys Vineyards

Family Farm Vineyard, Pinot Noir, 2019

Name: Family Farm Vineyard, Pinot Noir
Brand: Rhys Vineyards

93+/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

94/100

Vinous

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all 2021 2022

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Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Family farm always tends to drink and show itself earlier than the others and it is for this reason we have a bit of a soft spot for it – presence, balance, expressive fruits with notes of orange peel, tea and sweet spice giving complexity, it has all the elements to provide huge enjoyment at an early age. With succulent tannins and fresh berry fruit accented with notes of the Redwood forests that surround the vineyard, finishing on notes of turned earth and ripe cherry.

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When it comes to purchasing wine, provenance is of utmost importance. A wine’s history – where it’s sourced from and how it’s been stored – can have an enormous influence on the eventual enjoyment it provides. At Justerini & Brooks, we can trace nearly every case back to the domaine, estate or Château it originally came from; we ship from over 200 wine producers throughout the world.

Wines not bought directly from the vineyard are either sourced from trusted suppliers, with whom we share the same philosophy and rigour in buying, or from our own network of Cellarers customers. These customers’ wines are stored in optimal conditions in Octavian Corsham and, in the vast majority of cases, have been stored by us since the wine was first shipped. We do not purchase wine from auctions.

We feel it is equally important to for our customers that the case they buy and leave in storage with us is exactly the same case they subsequently have delivered. This may sound obvious and straightforward, yet we are one of very few merchants to have taken measures to ensure this.

We have created a system where every case is independent, thereby ensuring a trail of ownership and peace of mind for every customer.

The Journey

Justerinis ensures that every case of wine stored with Cellarers (Wines) Ltd has a unique identifier and customer’s name, almost unheard of in the industry as it is expensive to administer. These details are printed and placed on every case which is logged and recorded under your account name and kept in the world’s most renowned storage facility, Octavian Corsham.

This information is sent from our systems to the warehouse every day to ensure the trail of ownership is verified and upheld.

While customer reserves are stored in Corsham, our physical stocks are kept in Hoddesdon, further providing a geographical separation between customers’ wines with Cellarers and Justerinis’ own stock.

Further Reassurance

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is a legally separate limited company from Justerini & Brooks which currently holds approximately £450 million worth of customer reserves. It is fully insured to catastrophic loss. Many merchants will state that wine in their care is fully insured, but in reality this is on an individual case basis with insufficient cover for total loss as this is prohibitively expensive. The cover provided by Octavian and Justerini & Brooks is unmatched.

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is audited by PwC every year.

Critic Reviews

93+/100

Matthew Luczy,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2019 Pinot Noir Family Farm Vineyard is similar to Anderson Valley's Bearwallow site, providing an accessible entryway into the Santa Cruz Mountains vineyard designates, particularly in this vintage. The nose displays the dark, cake-like concentration typical of this site but melds it with beautiful, lifted floral aromas. Fabulously juicy and succulent on the palate, the finish is propelled by balanced acidity rather than burly tannin, further cementing this wine to begin drinking before the rest of the range.

drinking window 2025 - 2037

date of review 04/2024

94/100

Antonio Galloni,

Vinous

The 2019 Pinot Noir Family Farm is bright, forward and seductive, as it so often is. Sweet floral aromatics meld into a core of red/purplish berry fruit, blood orange and star anise. In 2019, the Family Farm has an exotic quality that is hugely appealing. The 2019 was done with all destemmed fruit (a first for this wine) and aged mostly in neutral oak.

drinking window 2024 - 2039

date of review 05/2022

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This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.