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Medium red color. Dark fruit , smoked meats bouquet. Dark fruit flavor. Fairly soft and mature. Medium length. (1076 views)

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Opened and tasted. Then enjoyed with food (grilled lemongrass chicken with rice noodles, in case you were wondering).
Schott Zweisel stemless.
Lovely ruby color.
Beautiful nose of fresh flowers and brown spice. Touch of pine and fresh earth. Petrichor.
Bright red fruit with that spice note and touch of dried orange peel. Elegant and showing grace. Nice acidity that keeps you coming back for more.
Outstanding.
This is what I hoped to find when I started buiying the Rhys pinots many years ago. This lived up to the expectation.

Branded cork with vintage and vineyard.
12.9% abv. (1784 views)

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Same as last time - incredible bouquet and aroma. Very light. (1808 views)

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Nice flavor profile day 1 (3 hour decant) but more open and expressive day 3. (1805 views)

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Still quite young, there's some nice meaty, smoky, pine foresty stuff, but it is mainly gloriously fruity. Aromatic, smooth and lively, this speaks of the strong California sun, but it is not hot or flabby, rather poised and fresh, with great balance, complexity and length.... just too young still. It'll be much more interesting when the baby fat has completely melted away, but that may take another 10 years, as it is still quite fruity now. Great stuff. (2103 views)

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Pop and pour. Unmistakably California with ripe red fruit on the finish but not at all overripe. Earth and mineral notes provide counterpoint. Well balanced and in a great spot right now. Drink now or over the next ten. Excellent Cali Pinot. (1982 views)

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Settled into a nice spot and quite mature (not at all tired, but it’s mellowed and showing wisdom over snappy manic energy). Showing depth, plum, pencil, and a high tone from the acidity which has always been prominent in this wine. My last bottle and no regrets opening now - no idea what this wine morphs into from here, but I loved it young and I loved it now too. (2181 views)

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As delicious as the last bottle! (2140 views)

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Expressive nose displaying ripe red and black fruit, strawberry, cherry, plum, sous bois, raw button mushroom, cinnamon, allspice and earth. Very good concentration, nicely layered ripe red and black fruit, rich and deeply toned, good acidity, earthy mineral, and a medium to long ripe red and black fruit driven finish. This is entering the second stage of development with a hint of sous bois. (2593 views)

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Just a beautiful wine. I feel it’s in a perfect spot. Just starting to get some secondary notes. (2510 views)

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Nice pinot drinking well now. Still some freshness though beginning to develop some earth and mushroom notes. Perfect with Copper River salmon. (2505 views)

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Decanted. Ruby color with a rust tinge, clearing edges and brightly toned. Expressive aromas of pomegranate & blood orange fruit, hibiscus tea, umami - forest floor & mushroom, smoked paprika & allspice berry spices. Generous flavors of raspberry/pomegranate fruit, succulently expressive with pleasing subtle volatility, along with beautifully integrated secondary depth of foresty earth and exotic spices not unlike the nose. Very elegant through the palate, medium-bodied and seamlessly round, with tangy acid rounded out within the structure and fine integrated tannins, finishing with mouthwatering length of zesty red fruit. Secondary stage, early-peak to peak drinking window. Best Rhys I’ve had. (2298 views)

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One of the best California pinots I have had in a while. I generally find them too sweet and fruit forward but this was low alcohol, suffused with red berry and floral aromatics. Not over ripe. Balanced on the palate with great length. (2415 views)

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PnP - perfect cork and cellared since release at 58 degrees. Medium red with lightening at the rim. Nose is dominated by red fruits, cherry, strawberry and a hint of violets. More red apple and red berry on the palate with a medium to light body feel and a long finish; tannins are largely resolved. To me this lacks complexity and depth; nice wine but nothing special. Perhaps needs more air - will see. (2351 views)

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