Cuesta has a saline nose, and a sense of savoury fruit that dominates the pure fruitiness of the wine, which it indeed possesses. Fine red fruits mingle with a nice, tinged salinity on the nose. In the mouth, there's a great individuality here: a musky raspberry tone with infectious salinity. This is a ballerina, yes, like all of our Pinots, but it's a rustic ballerina with worn shoes – one that attracts notice through its lack of fear of being different. Saline? Yes! Meaty? Yes! Perfumed? Yes! Rich? Yes! Mineral? Yes! But, with all of that, it has its own edge. It refuses to be anything but itself. It dances. It finishes light, yet long, with a sort of white minerality, a spicy rumminess, and a light salinity.

A word from Mary: Confit Raspberry on the nose. Beautiful. Length and strawberry notes on the finish. Crunchy cherry concentrate.

Drinking prime: 2029 – 2032

Best fruit window: 2028 – 2030

Cases produced: 121