Celebrating this wine's sweet sixteen tonight. I've had a bad string of cooked/corked/oxidized older vintage wines but this bad boy was still singing soprano in it's effervescent youth. Just showing a touch of old earthy log on the finish, it's otherwise still young vibrant Pinot fruit through and through. That 15% alc was also still punching hard out of the gate but then maybe that just the 2002 vintage.
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PnP. Reddish violet. Dark cherries, cola but the intoxicating forest floor of previous bottles not there this time. Palate features spritzy light medium fairly bright fruit without much length or penetration. Not complex. Kind of dull despite assertive acidity. Either an off bottle (first time with spritz) or heading south since my last note almost 5 years ago. Still okay to good with food. 86- (?)
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Nice rich fruit on the nose. Balanced with good acidity. medium tannins dark cherry on first taste. Very good wine. This is my last bottle and it is drinking well right now. It seems structured enought to last a bit longer, but it is expressing itself very well as a drink now wine, no need to wait when all the components are there. nice finish with good layers.
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5/17/2018 - jfutey wrote: 90 Points
Celebrating this wine's sweet sixteen tonight. I've had a bad string of cooked/corked/oxidized older vintage wines but this bad boy was still singing soprano in it's effervescent youth. Just showing a touch of old earthy log on the finish, it's otherwise still young vibrant Pinot fruit through and through. That 15% alc was also still punching hard out of the gate but then maybe that just the 2002 vintage.
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3/3/2013 - no leashes wrote: 80 Points
Spritzy when opened, then overwhelming cola, forest floor flavors. Not very good.
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1/23/2012 - thomaskeil wrote:
PnP. Reddish violet. Dark cherries, cola but the intoxicating forest floor of previous bottles not there this time. Palate features spritzy light medium fairly bright fruit without much length or penetration. Not complex. Kind of dull despite assertive acidity. Either an off bottle (first time with spritz) or heading south since my last note almost 5 years ago. Still okay to good with food. 86- (?)
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11/13/2010 - BigTarheel wrote:
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5/17/2009 - SPK wrote:
Nice rich fruit on the nose. Balanced with good acidity. medium tannins dark cherry on first taste. Very good wine. This is my last bottle and it is drinking well right now. It seems structured enought to last a bit longer, but it is expressing itself very well as a drink now wine, no need to wait when all the components are there. nice finish with good layers.
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