2017 Three Sticks Pinot Noir PFV Estate

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 91.3 points

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  3/13/2022 - tjbuz Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Aging beautifully

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  5/15/2021 - Troon wrote: 91 Points

  Decanted for an hour. This wine was a fantastic QPR. I don’t know how I scored it, but I got these for $40 a bottle. I am only lukewarm at $65. Raspberry, spice, and bubblegum on the nose. More raspberry and cherry with a hint of pepper on the palate. The finish was medium-long with a nice balance. This is a very good wine. Peaked about 3 hours after opening.

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  1/14/2021 - Hi.its.Don.4.Wine Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Patience is Not a Virtue I Possess - At Least As Wine Goes
  
  Just 5 months ago I declared in a post titled “Patience Is a Virtue – Sometimes Even In Wine” how fortunate I was to have been able to set aside a bottle of the Three Sticks Durell Vineyard Pinot Noir 2017 to allow the bottle to continue to develop. As for the wine for this post,
  
  Three Sticks Price Family Vineyard Pinot Noir 2017
  
  It is to my chagrin that I am also forced to admit that I reviewed this same wine only 20 months ago; so much for patience and wanting to continue to cellar certain wines.
  
  Now, in my defense, I can fall back on my usual justification for this seeming flip flop; that at my age memory may occasionally fail me, or that at this stage of life I can change my mind at any time, twenty months ago invoking “Brain Cloud,” or even the standard contingency of “I don’t care.” Whatever be the case, I’m now invoking the “respect your elders” and allow this faux-pas to pass and refrain from judging me, all the while I am judging this most excellent wine.
  
  Beyond the review given twenty months ago, the wine has progressed even beyond the exemplary review I gave it back them, mentioning that the 2017 vintage provided a slightly more rustic element. Over those months, it does seem to have brought forth some additional fruit nuances while still holding on to those rustic elements, thus creating an even more focused wine and one of superb drinkability.
  
  For context and those interested in some of the technical aspects of the wine; it hails from the Sonoma Coast and is a blend of 4 of their vineyards (Walala, Gap’s Crown, Durell, and One Sky), the wine seeing 25% whole cluster fermentation along with 11 months of barrel aging in 100% French Oak, 42% which is new. While 2017 is likely no longer available, 2018, to which I gave a rave review, may still be available, baring that 2019 is due for release sometime in April, check with the winery and get on their member list for your allocation when new wines become available, I haven’t regretted it yet!
  
  Cheers

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  11/28/2019 - franinnyc Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Lovely with our thanksgiving dinner. Light bodied but complex with a nice finish.

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  7/5/2019 - mwiley Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Very light yet but complex Pinot Noir. Even better as it open up a bit.

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