Rhys Vineyards

Mt Pajaro Vineyard, Pinot Noir, 2022

Name: Mt Pajaro Vineyard, Pinot Noir
Brand: Rhys Vineyards
Price: 410 GBP

95/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

95/100

Vinous

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2022
6x75cl
EP
£410.00

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Wonderful aromatics, cool yet almost exotic, with floral notes and touches of spice and then on the palate, plenty of cracked stone mineral notes, cool, restrained fruit, and a web of fine tannin below. It’s a precise, pixellated wine with that laser-beam down-the-middle quality that the Chardonnay has, but more flesh surrounding it than in previous vintages. If the bouquet continues to develop along the lines it is showing today, this is going to be irresistible in three or four years’ time.

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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.

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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

95/100

Matthew Luczy,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

Showing more and more complexity with each passing vintage, the 2022 Pinot Noir Mt. Pajaro Vineyard opens with an intense but bright nose of beaming saline-tinged red fruits, accented by turned earth and exotic spice aromas. The palate begins on an understated note, quickly transitioning to a pure, vibrant and playfully agile texture after some time in the glass. It concludes with a remarkably rich and concentrated finish that slowly unfolds yet retains the high-toned energy and fine-grained tannins that are this site's signature. As with a few of the Rhys 2022s, this was my favorite iteration of the Mt. Pajaro Pinot Noir thus far.

drinking window 2025 - 2037

date of review 08/2024

95/100

Antonio Galloni,

Vinous

The 2022 Pinot Noir Mt. Pajaro Vineyard is the one Santa Cruz Mountains Pinot in this range made from a site that is not in the vicinity of the winery. It opens with a blast of heady, red-toned fruit. Cedar, sweet pipe tobacco, orange confit, mint and espresso develop later. Today, the 2022 is a bit of an extrovert. Time in bottle should help soften some of that youthful exuberance. Even so, I expect the 2022 will remain pretty overt relative to prior vintages.

drinking window 2026 - 2037

date of review 11/2023

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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.