2013 Calera Pinot Noir Selleck Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (9) Avg Score: 92.8 points

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  11/26/2022 - Skeptic Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Surprised at recent comments as the last three times I have had this it has been excellent. Developed tertiary flavor profile, great balance and fruit throughout. Opens wonderfully over a couple of hours. This won a blind tasting against a strong line up of similar top flight Pinots. Very Burgundian, just sorry this is my last bottle!!

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  1/23/2022 - MichielV wrote: 91 Points

  With turkey meatball asian style. Good combo. Found this in the cellar with no CT inventory. Great bottle - still very young with loads of character. Yummy.

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  11/13/2021 - cadamson Likes this wine:

  Still very young. Crazily alluring nose of fruit and cinnamon. Delicious on the palate, holding the quite high alcohol (14.9) well. Still, too big IMO, for a Pinot. Very enjoyable and crows pleasing on its own, not sure what good I would match with it. Still, for the size, aging very well.

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  9/7/2019 - Paul S wrote: 90 Points

  Drinks at Bo and Mich's (Sydney, Australia): Decent wine, but none of us could identify it as a Pinot Noir when blind. A world away from Burgundy for sure. This started with something caramelly on the nose - like browned butter or really old Gouda cheese - alongside sweet notes of red dates and liquered cherries, all this touched with a bit of oolong tea. Really interesting, but certainly different. The palate was quite intriguing too, with more of those tea leaf notes, along with ripe but somehow reserved notes of black cherry, boysenberries and plums, alongside a little spear of earthy spice and cigarette smoke drifting away on the back palate. Fine tannins and fresh acidity added a bit of bite on the finish. Enjoyable enough, but not my style - there was just something a bit forced about the wine. I suspect it will get better with a few more years in the bottle though - and it would be interesting to try it then.

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  11/24/2018 - mikemboutiquewines wrote: 95 Points

  Beautiful wine that is just entering a long drinking window. Very balanced with excellent palate all around. Nose doesn't quite keep up right now.

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