Decanted for an hour. Consumed over next 5 hours. Nose is deep cooked dark fruit. Black cherry. Wet forrest. Sweet tobacco. Little bit of cherry cola spilled on leather. Palate is powerful and dense. Not tight, but you need to sit with it a bit. Flows effortlessly. Fantastic beginning, middle, and end. The fruit is playful. At times dark but expressive. Terroir is evident. Fun now with a very long decant. In a decade? Can't wait to find out.
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Brought by friend, a bottle I would never have opened at this juncture, The early sacrifice not worth the experience. Not a huge fan of most CA pinot in the full-bodied range, but this has very good potential for that style. Lots of dark fruit, with a little cedar and (French?) oak spice. I sense this has the structure to age well, and would not open for at least another 5 years.
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Earthy nose of licorice and dark cherry, baking spices, cardamom. A lot of energy. Very fruit forward palate with oodles of dark cherry and strawberry, more baking spices and a med+ long finish. Excellent balance on the finish as well. A little tannin poking through after an hour but this is not a very structured wine. So fruit forward now that the deep fruit is obscuring some of the other elements but it bodes well for a long life and very positive development. 91 now but potential for a much higher number in 5-10 years.
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5/14/2022 - yaCellar Likes this wine: 95 Points
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2/17/2022 - realstevebeam Likes this wine: 94 Points
Decanted for an hour. Consumed over next 5 hours.
Nose is deep cooked dark fruit. Black cherry. Wet forrest. Sweet tobacco. Little bit of cherry cola spilled on leather. Palate is powerful and dense. Not tight, but you need to sit with it a bit. Flows effortlessly. Fantastic beginning, middle, and end. The fruit is playful. At times dark but expressive. Terroir is evident. Fun now with a very long decant. In a decade? Can't wait to find out.
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10/31/2021 - smctipton Likes this wine:
Brought by friend, a bottle I would never have opened at this juncture, The early sacrifice not worth the experience. Not a huge fan of most CA pinot in the full-bodied range, but this has very good potential for that style. Lots of dark fruit, with a little cedar and (French?) oak spice. I sense this has the structure to age well, and would not open for at least another 5 years.
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10/17/2021 - cadamson Likes this wine:
No formal notes. Just remember thinking it had serious stuffing (nd felt much larger than the 13.2%), but was way too young.
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2/1/2021 - Richard P Howden Likes this wine: 91 Points
Earthy nose of licorice and dark cherry, baking spices, cardamom. A lot of energy. Very fruit forward palate with oodles of dark cherry and strawberry, more baking spices and a med+ long finish. Excellent balance on the finish as well. A little tannin poking through after an hour but this is not a very structured wine. So fruit forward now that the deep fruit is obscuring some of the other elements but it bodes well for a long life and very positive development. 91 now but potential for a much higher number in 5-10 years.
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