2012 Marcassin Pinot Noir Marcassin Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (120) Avg Score: 94.6 points

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  5/4/2024 - pjhr Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Wonderful complexity on the nose and silky palate with ripe red cherry, raspberry, and hint of asian spice with vibrant structure and long finish.

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  5/1/2024 - daved Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Peaking now, it has grown immensely since last tasting

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  4/5/2024 - JDRFoster wrote: 98 Points

  Absolutely beautiful, balanced, and layered. Amazing from start to finish!

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  2/25/2024 - dafmd Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Double decant; 60 min in bottle before drinning; light ruby, slight rim; rich cherry, develops nicely in the glass; baking spices; sweet cranberry on palate; silkiest of silky tannins mid palate; wonderful with grilled salmon

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  2/20/2024 - Sagan99 Likes this wine: 87 Points

  Recently, I've sipped a few Marcassin PNs. They've all been different.
  This one changed significantly for the better overnight in a refrigerated decanter, from PnP at 30 minutes.
  Initially, this tasted of green stems and seeds... (and reminded me of being a young kid, boiling water with green spruce tree needles, to make a tea of sorts.😝🤢)
  Can't get to the 90s I've seen about this wine.
  
  Maybe it's the bottle. I'll compare next time.
  
  24 hours later, this was remarkably better.
  
  Addendum -
  Because this was a rather odd Pinot, "to me", I had to keep a couple of glasses to air out over 24, then 48 hours, in a decanter and in the fridge
  After 24 hours, this wine opened slightly, showed more expected red berries and less green stems. It never was a very pleasant palate pleaser.
  After 48 hours in the fridge and ox, it exhibited a similar medicinal cola character and was tossed.
  
  I have a few more bottles of this. I'll have to compare this, because I can't believe this wine, from this vigneron, was this disappointing.
  
  I'm hoping it was a single bottle thing?
  
  I'd kept a couple of glasses to
  PN 100%
  14.3% abv
  
  W/O food
  With Air fryer chicken thighs and fries
  
  ( I'm already not an air fryer fan, except it's really fast. But, removes much of the internal juices and fats. But again... It's really freaking fast and easy cleaning. Seemed to be more detrimental to wine pairing, no matter what the food groups Anyone with thoughts to change my mind. This is a new thing for me)
  
  
  PS - Drink The Rainbow!

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