Sure, this isn't a normal Pinot, but good is good, and this is a remarkably sexy and seductive Pinot taken to a Californian extreme. It's very sweet, with a Bourbon-y nose that includes gorgeously fragrant notes of milk chocolate, mocha, sugarplum, vanilla buttercream, and baking spices that make it seem like a Christmas concoction, but there's sufficient cherry-berry fruit on the palette to provide balance, if not quite enough to overcome the syrupy, unstructured, dessert-like dominance. It's wildly overpriced, but, faults and all, it's utterly decadent and utterly enjoyable.