94pts Wine Enthusiast - Cellar Selection

While this is Siduri’s 'regular' Pinot, it’s a real standout. Charming fruit and spice aromas seem perfectly aligned with the complex, layered, intricate flavors that follow. The wine is firm textured, concentrated and impressive, offering everything from bright raspberries to rich black cherries to cedar and clove accents. Best from 2025-2032.

90pts Jeb Dunnuck

The 2021 Pinot Noir Russian River Valley pours a deep red, with ripe and expressive aromas of classic appeal, including cola spice, saturated black cherry, and damp forest floor. Ripe with red plum that is forward on the palate, it reveals a note of black tea, angular, ripe tannins, and turned earth. It’s ripe and meaty, with a good sense of place. Drink it over the next few years.

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

The 2021 Pinot Noir Russian River, matured for 10 months in 30% new French oak, is scented of red and black cherries, woodsmoke, pipe tobacco, earth and potpourri. The medium-bodied palate has a concentrated core of earthy fruit, slightly rustic tannins, fresh acidity and a woodsmoke-laced finish. 5,500 cases produced.

Winemaker Notes

The Siduri Russian River Valley Pinot Noir is sourced from a diverse array of sub-AVAs and neighborhoods that are harmoniously layered into a singular expression of this exceptional place to grow Pinot Noir. The Green Valley AVA, as well as the neighborhoods of The Laguna, Santa Rosa Plains and Sebastopol Hills are brought together to showcase the classic dark cherry and cola notes that Russian River Valley Pinot Noirs exhibit in spades.