Sommers Reserve is comprised of grapes from our four estate vineyards, along with some traded or purchased fruit. It contains fruit from fourteen vineyard sites that include seven different Pinot Noir clones. Aromas of cocoa powder, orange-pekoe tea leaf, cola berry leap greet the nose. The palate is creamy, spicy, persistent and ripe. The blend is focused on Cristom's four Eola-Amity Hills vineyards. It's a dense mélange of stem spice, smoke, graham flour and tobacco, with plummy fruit that absorbs the savory elements, and a sturdy oak component that cradles the lot of it in a warm embrace. Tasted over several days it gains polish and elegance, the oak integrating into something more burnished and structural, lending direction without weight.