Château de Mur, Vully (Switzerland) Pinot Noir 2016

 This lithe Pinot Noir gets points for delicacy… and should arguably get even more of them than I’ve given, but will prove a bit too faint for some tasters and many foods for me to go any higher.  With that stated, it is a very pretty wine, with red cherry fruit and a little whiff of wild strawberry and almost no overt oak.  By way of context, this is actually meatier than almost any Bourgogne rouge (even from a ripe year like 2015), but is still a lot lighter than Pinot from Oregon or New Zealand, much less California.  All in all, a recommended wine, even if some of the verbiage here might seem like damning with faint praise.