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The One With The Palate: Read about Moret Brealynn and what she's drinking in 2024

Adam Lee and Moret Brealynn are style mavens when it comes to this varietal

And her great partnership with renowned Pinot Noir expert

And The Wine Situation Final Five on Delectable - Podcast Here

Morét talks with Steve Jaxon, Dan Berger, and Barry Herbst about her wines

Funny girl. How Morét Brealynn is Having Fun Making Serious Wines.

Morét Brealynn was born in Patterson California at one time the Apricot capital of the world. We know how much all of you listeners love those California agricultural facts…

Can you become a winemaker without ever having made wine before?

Morét Brealynn can answer that question: yes

They are all delicious and easy drinking young wines made in small quantity

Sage covered cherries and cinnamon- and coriander dusted red currants wash over the tongue in a liquid caress with bright acidity and vibrant earth tones. Mocha goes on a midpalate mission, enhancing rose petals and red cherries before white pepper surprises on the finish. Its taste of soil is Burgundian.

 Medium-bodied but certainly not lacking in ripe fruit, the palate displays a supple, rounded texture, with ripe tannins, a snappy lift of crunchy acidity, and a pleasing, savory finish. 

Aromas of spiced red cherry, cinnamon, and fresh flowers. It's ripe and fresh throughout with vanilla bean, ripe berries, and a clean supple finish.

Donating 10 percent of proceeds to animal shelters, this philanthropic bottling offers juicy strawberry and bay leaf aromas on the nose...

Displays fresh light, raspberry fruit aromas and is nicely balanced with soft round tannins and a medium finish.

 This wine offers up a pretty, ripe nose of red and black cherries, pomegranate, Central Coast fresh herb tones, dark soil elements and a touch of pepper in the upper register.

Medium in body, the tannins offer palpable chew while the acid starts broad and builds to a fine point. 

The wine is deep, full bodied and rock solid at the core, with fine soil signature, ripe, firm tannins, good acids and impressive focus and grip on the long, nascently complex and very promising finish. 

Still quite youthful and easy drinking, it has round tannins and an excellent finish 

Sweet berry compotes, pomegranate, clove

Luxurious with black cherry concentrate and vanilla bean spice. Full bodied... it will drink well now or over the next 5-7 years.

Very drinkable wine... aromas of orchard fruit... good overall concentration and a pleasant finish

Fresh and aromatic with pithy citrus, wildflowers, and orange zest. Beautiful soft texture... pair with anything from tacos to Thai food.

This is one of the very best Rosés we tasted this year.

It's well crafted and refreshing from start to finish. Impressive.

Showing an intricate nose of orange zest and dried cherry with savory notes, this is a rosé of substance on the palate 

Taut and sharply focused, offering fresh cherry, redcurrant, and tangerine flavors that unfurl slowly through the back half

Lively raspberry and red-cherry flavors highlight this medium-bodied and nicely crisp-textured wine 

It's well crafted and refreshing from start to finish. Impressive.

Supple and plump, with polished raspberry and cherry flavors that linger on the finish 

This medium to full bodied Pinot Noir delivers pure note of wild raspberry, forest floor, and baking spice. A very attractive wine.

Silky on the attack with a nice mix of fresh dark fruits

A very stylish blend of black cherries, sweet dark berries, woodsmoke, a good base of soil, black tea and a nice foundation of spicy new oak.  

Intriguing profile of plum, cherry, baking spice

Offers aromas of cherry, red raspberry and a soft whiff of bramble