DeLoach Vineyards Reviews

A toasty aromatic profile emerges on the nose of the 2022 Pinot Noir van der Kamp, which pours a ruby color and offers notes of toast, cedar, ripe cherries, and dried earth. Medium-bodied and ripe, with plush tannins, a good, silky texture, and a long, ripe finish, it shows the more sunny side of the vintage and is going to drink its best over the next few years.

From the Sebastopol Hills, the youthful ruby/magenta-colored 2022 Pinot Noir Pennacchio Vineyard is spicy and aromatic with fresh spices, bright raspberries, tea leaf, and orange peel. Medium-bodied and juicy, it’s approachable and ripe, with an easygoing nature and a kiss of sweet fruit. Drink over the next few years.

Also from the Sebastopol Hills, the 2022 Pinot Noir Maboroshi Vineyard is a deep magenta color and has a ripe, darker fruit profile in its notes of black cherry candies, violets, sweet earth, and mossy forest herbs. Medium to full-bodied, it has more structure on the palate, as well as ripe tannins and a darker note of turned earth on the finish. Drink 2025-2032. - Audrey Frick

The 2022 Pinot Noir Green Valley of Russian River Valley displays a brighter red/ruby hue in the glass and is lifted with aromas of cinnamon, green herbs, and spiced cranberries. It has a tangy lift on the palate, with fine tannins and a bit of stemmy spice on the finish. It is going to show its best over the next 4-5 years. I like the freshness and linear feel, but the herbal note is a touch pronounced. - Audrey Frick

Here’s a great everyday-style wine for when you just want a good chardonnay with some peach and apricot fruit character and a hint of sweetness, but nothing to contemplate or hijack your dinner conversation with oenogeeky discourse. It’s straightforward, simple and delicious. - Dave McIntyre

Black and ripe, this wine’s candied-cherry flavors have a Port-like sweetness, while there’s enough acidity to keep it juicy. “Bottom notes give it depth and resonance,” said James Conley of Keen’s Steakhouse, while others pointed to the walnut scents of oak, and highlights of thyme and rosemary.

Here’s a wine for those who like a little sea wrack in their pinot noir; this one has oceanic persistence and sweet, high-toned strawberry fruit. You could think of the green herb scents as nori, to complement nigiri sushi.

A rich expression of a coastal wine, this tastes of pear, banana and pie crust, the floral earthy intensity. Tight-grained tannin and oak form around baking-spice and vanilla undertones. Virginie Boone

With a floral entry of jasmine and fennel, this is an earthy, balanced wine with ample complexity and a spicy center of Gravenstein apple and baking spice. The oak is well integrated and present. Virginie Boone

This is a salty, savory and lengthy white from a cool-climate site, richly layered in butterscotch and baked apple. Made in a hearty style, it remains fresh via underlying acidity and is accented in nutmeg and oak. Virginie Boone

Great balance and a refreshing bit of restraint make this medium-bodied wine charming and elegant. It will be easy to come back to for all kinds of meals. Vibrant raspberry and red cherry meet light oak spices on a smooth, lightly tannic texture. JIM GORDON

This meaty, gamey zin evoked food descriptions as well as pairing suggestions. The wine itself is bright and gracious enough to rise above its oaken riches, focusing instead on the scent of hng game, with high-toned cherry scents lasting in a way that would accommodate meaty-stuffed cabbage or a roast pork chop with crisp cracklings at the edges. - J.G.

From dry-farmed, century-old vines, this wine is richly ripe in plum and black cherry, with a hot and heavy presence tempered by a lift of acidity. Dusty tannin and tobacco ride out the finish. 

Creamy, bright and fresh with notes of lemon drop, strawberry ice cream, watermelon and honeydew. 

Medium ruby-purple in color, the 2015 Pinot Noir La Bienvenue Estate Vineyard reveals a nose of crushed blackberries, wild blueberries and black raspberries with touches of fertile loam, bay leaves and black truffles. Medium to full-bodied, it offers a great intensity of black and red berry flavors with stacks of earthy undertones and firm, fine-grained tannins, finishing on a lingering mineral note. 

The 2015 Zinfandel Saitone Ranch is medium garnet-purple colored and boldly scented of raspberry preserves, spice cake and prunes with suggestions of Indian spices, dusty soil and tobacco. Full-bodied, packed with spicy dried berry flavors and supported with chewy tannins, it has a crisp line of acid nicely lifting the pruney notions on the finish. 

The 2015 Zinfandel Rue Vineyard is medium to deep garnet-purple with a nose of baked raspberries, blackberry compote and blueberry pie notions with touches of Chinese five spice, hoisin, black olives and fragrant earth. Full-bodied, richly fruited and very spicy in the mouth, the dried berry flavors are framed by chewy tannins and a tart line of acid, finishing on a fruitcake note. 

Tight and zesty, with a vibrant core of wild berry and blackberry flavors, touches of spice and accents of wild rose and gravelly earth, all adding up to a complex offering. –JL

There’s a freshness to this wine. It’s supple and fine grained with pear and citrus fruit, showing good balance. Refined and fruit-driven with good acidity.

Supple and jammy, with smoky raspberry aromas and focused, layered flavors of ripe cherry, caramelized anise and cracked pepper.  –TF

The 2012 Zinfandel Nova Vineyard is more of a fruity Zinfandel with notes of raspberries and cherries, not a lot of depth, but it remains superficially delicious and seductive and can be drunk over the next 1-2 years.

Firm and rich on the palate, this red is lightly aromatic, offering notes of lavender, dark berry and crushed rock, with lively acidity and tannins.

Jammy and soft, with flavors of raspberry, apricot and spice.