Cobb Wines, Sonoma Coast (Sonoma County, California) Pinot Noir 2009

 The 2009 Emmaline is even better than the great 2007 Cobb Emmaline, to my taste.  It is totally delicious, with lively raspberry and tart cherry aromas and flavors and great acidity.  And yet it possesses the delicacy and subtlety that is so difficult to capture in California Pinot Noirs.  It is very young now.  Even after being open for four days, it was still very fresh.  This might be the longest-lived of all the Cobb Pinot Noirs I have tasted.  I would suggest holding on to the 2009 for a few years before drinking it.  All of Cobb’s Pinot Noirs rank from very good to great, but the Emmalines are in a class by themselves.