2012 Pinot Noir Bucher Vineyard

Two thousand fourteen will be longtime winemaker Bob Cabral's last vintage here as he's leaving after the 2014 harvest "to check out a lot of new stuff" that he either isn't able to discuss or hasn't quite figured out just yet. He's looking forward to getting out on his own as his career, which spans four decades, has always involved working for somebody. "I have no complaints, zero," he told me in March, "and now's a good time to see what I finally might be able to do on my own." Jeff Mangahas, who came on board here in April, 2011 after 5 years as winemaker at Hartford Court, will take over Cabral's position, and based on the wines coming out of the Williams-Selyem winery since he arrived and the consistently excellent wines that he made for Don Hartford, things should keep humming along smoothly here.