Framingham F Series Marlborough Pinot Noir 2019 $40 
You can’t have a conversation about Marlborough pinot noir without devoting an unseemly amount of time to Framingham. Growing grapes in the Wairau Valley since 1981 has taught them a thing or thirty about getting it right, and with whole-bunch pressing, longer soakage on skins and longer sleepy time in oak than their other styles, you get that comforting aroma of a dusty carpenter’s workshop combined with baked cherry and tamarillo compote, a lick of leather, and a long, fleshy finish. Duck risotto? Rock on! Drink now-2030
