2023 Bachelder Wismer-Parke Vineyard "Wild West End" Pinot Noir🔥94pts

Just like Wismer-Foxcroft, I can smell this wine from a mile away: it stands out. From a single block of the Wismer-Parke vineyard planted to an unknown clone, this wine wears it's name perfectly: everything is more and wilder than the Wismer-Parke wine. A little wild and meaty on the nose, with darker fruits and pronounced florality and earthiness. On the palate, the softness if absolutely amazing, with density and concentration. Flavours include dark raspberry, blackberry, red currant, and tobacco. On the finish, it's ironey, salty, and has a bit of black pepper and cloves. This tiny small batch of Pinot stands out every single time I smell it, and for every single sip. The 2023 version is one of my top favourite vintages from this special parcel. (Carl Boucher, Nov 14, 2025). 

94pts Carl's Wine Club | 95pts Christopher Watters | 94pts Rick VanSickle

A word from Thomas: Planted to an unknown clone, and grown on reddish, magnesium oxide-influenced soils, it offers up bright pomegranate and spicy rhubarb, luscious red raspberries over an amaro blueberry mid-palate. Bracing, with some wildness, and an almost Campari finish! It is a classy, elegant blueberry and tight-fruited meaty wildness. I love the roasted cool blue fruit flavours. And this super dark slatey finish. It has an evocative nose of small forest strawberries and raspberries. Umami-anise and an elegant wild mid-palate make for a majestic wine. Acidulated fruits like raspberries with glorious glycerine on the finish, wine from red-coloured earth. The magnesium oxide here imbues a savoury seashore salty finish to this gorgeous wine. Age this for at least another five years. It will improve that long and more.

A word from Mary: Cranberry orange peel. Amaro Campari, a herbal finish. Cranberry;, blackberry, rhubarb; rose petal. That's more than ONE Word from Mary :) But hey. a complex wine is a complex wine.

Another word from Mary: Takes this Vineyard to the next level

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