1/2/2024 - SeaSea Likes this wine:

Lovely botttle opened new years eve. Richness and elegance, as AG said, lemon, white flowers and orchard fruit. Disapeered quickly.

12/26/2023 - SeaSea Likes this wine:

Perfect aged Hermitage from magnum. All the right notes. In the zone. Unlike better BDX from this era, the corks are starting to be soaked about 1/3rd. So enjoy over the next decade.

12/26/2023 - SeaSea Likes this wine:

Drinking surprisingly well at such a young age. Black cherry, easy company.

4/21/2023 - SeaSea wrote:

Seems closed for business. Opened up only a tiny amount after two hours. Check back in 2027.

4/9/2023 - SeaSea Likes this wine:

Deliscious and elegant lunch claret

2/24/2023 - SeaSea wrote:

A tingle of alcohol, is the heat that disrupts an otherwise lovely wine

2/20/2023 - SeaSea wrote:

Same feeling as the previous poster. Not great, not terrible. Eminently drinkable burgundy. The mild green notes, while not overwhelming, endow this wine and most of the 2011 burgundy bottles I have opened with a simple mediocrity. Glad I don't own many from that year.

10/10/2022 - SeaSea Likes this wine:

Red fruited tasty Volnay. Improved after an hour. Easy drinking happy wine.

10/2/2022 - SeaSea Likes this wine:

Delicious. Black cherry, w/that Gevrey touch of salinity. No feeling of 2003 heat

10/2/2022 - SeaSea Likes this wine:

Classic Elegant Volnay. In line with other notes. Slight browning. Lovely drinking first night. Saw a bit of a fade and slight sherry notes after I left 1/3 in the bottle overnight in the wine fridge.

9/23/2022 - SeaSea Likes this wine:

Superb bottles. From UK bond. Perfect cork. One hour decant. In a great drinking zone. 12.5% alcohol.

9/19/2022 - SeaSea wrote:

First of a case. Drank over 4 nights. Actually 3 as third night did not sample. In line with the previous reviews. Well packed with flavors. Young. Stayed that way over 4 days. As one who leans towards wine with age, I am looking forward to opening the rest of the bottles starting in a decade.

9/12/2022 - SeaSea Likes this wine:

Quick double decant before leaving for the restaurant. Cork is in great shape. Drinking perfectly in the zone. Lovely, elegant food-wine.

8/10/2022 - SeaSea Likes this wine:

Opened on my birthday. Cork on its last legs. Quick double decant for sediment. Delicious aged Pomerol.

2/21/2022 - SeaSea Likes this wine:

Early drinking zone. Dark ruby. Black cherry. Charming. Easy drinker

2/7/2022 - SeaSea wrote:

Still pretty tight. Dark red fruits. As described by other tasters. Some vanilla. Feels like the expensive French brother of a Walter Scott Oregon Pinot Noir. Not yet magic. Will hold other two bottles.

12/2/2021 - SeaSea wrote:

Winebid purchase. Cooked/oxidized. Down drain.

11/28/2021 - SeaSea Likes this wine:

Delicious. Silky sweet fruit with a long finish. In a lovely drinking window. From magnum. Quick double decant for sediment. 13.5% alc.

11/15/2021 - SeaSea Likes this wine:

Young. Tasty, mountain red berry, sharp acidity, and fine tannins. Elegance and lightness. Good potential to improve with age.
My view is that artisanal Oregon Pinot Noir made with stems is best with a decade-plus. This bottle is just in the John Thomas minimum of 8 years past harvest.

10/31/2021 - SeaSea wrote:

Opened a 2005 Arterberry Maresh, Maresh Vineyard. Jim Maresh’s first commercial vintage. Superb. Everything I would wish for in a Oregon Pinot Noir. Bit of funk that quickly blew off.

Silky complex dark mountain cherry, spice, long complex finish. Mid life, with many years to go.

According to Jim. “A favorite of mine for its silky complex fruit. Picked October 23rd very minimal punch downs”

Sadly I only have two more bottles.

10/22/2021 - SeaSea Likes this wine:

Full-bodied it's deep and luscious, with a concentration of pear, flowers, acid, and the saline sea. Superb champagne for Fall, just Delicious.

10/22/2021 - SeaSea Likes this wine:

Drank from well-stored magnums. Open an hour before and a quick decant before pouring—the nose of cherries, pomegranate, fresh herbs, and spices. A full full-bodied, and complex finish goes exceptionally well with hipster Chinese food from Red Farm in NYC. Excellent!

10/4/2021 - SeaSea Likes this wine:

Drank over two days. Still tight at first. Opened up in decanter. Last third delicious day 2. Still early days.

8/29/2021 - SeaSea Likes this wine:

Delicious. Dark cherry, spice and everything nice.

8/29/2021 - SeaSea Likes this wine:

Seems to be in a slightly closed phase. Still tasty.

8/26/2021 - SeaSea Likes this wine:

Quick double decant before restaurant. Not much sediment. Delightful and elegant, Burgundian Nebbiolo, Many years ahead.

8/25/2021 - SeaSea Likes this wine:

Standard Oregon Pinot nose. First night the palate is a bit reserved. Left half the bottle in fridge. Forgot. Opened it on day three and it had blossomed into much more interesting. Savory seven springs spice.

8/9/2021 - SeaSea Likes this wine:

Drank three bottles of the VCC 1966 on my 55th Birthday. Removed cork 4 hours before and a quick decant for sediment. Lovely, aged Pomerol nose. A savory complexity and density from age. Three superb bottles of delicious wine that are still going strong in their 6th decade.

7/30/2021 - SeaSea Likes this wine:

Delicious, low alcohol, great acid backbone. Strawberries and tart cherries. Better day 2.

7/17/2021 - SeaSea Likes this wine:

Lovely

5/28/2021 - SeaSea Likes this wine:

Drank from a well-stored Magnum bought at auction from a noted collector. Quick double decant for sediment. Elegant and delicious bottle in its middle age. Any hints of Oak have receded, fruit has not.

4/29/2021 - SeaSea Likes this wine:

Delicious. Drank over three days. Tight at first. Third night the best. Momtazi has more weight and spice than KF Maresh. Darker red fruit. Deeper color. Glad I have more bottles and vintages to enjoy over the next 20 years.

2/23/2021 - SeaSea Likes this wine:

Cork a bit dodgy. Came out clean. Nose of beetroot. Nice clarity. Savory old Pinot.

1/26/2021 - SeaSea Likes this wine:

Delicious over two nights. Gaining weight. Dundee hills mountain red berry’s. Glad to have more.

1/15/2021 - SeaSea Likes this wine:

Poured half and then kept in fridge. Tight first night, delicious second. Makes me think this has not reached the peak window.

1/9/2021 - SeaSea Likes this wine:

PNP day one. Nice savory dark fruit. Wel integrated. Drinking well. Enjoyed over two nights. No side of fading. Lovely.

1/2/2021 - SeaSea Likes this wine:

Nose and palate consistent with previous notes. Adding weight and complexity. Enjoyed over two days. First day decanted half of bottle for an hour. Second day best. Lovely wine that is getting better with age.

12/21/2020 - SeaSea Likes this wine:

Delightful. Oregon nose, red fruit, spice, as the wine opened in the glass, was cheerfully consumed.

12/17/2020 - SeaSea Likes this wine:

Ribbon ridge nose, if that means anything. Slight CO2 that disappears quickly. Cherry and raspberry, smooth tannins, long finish, with elegance, gracefully aging. Sediment well-formed at the bottom. I have enjoyed the BF wines from 2005 -2008 after Mike Etzyl went biodynamic are lovely and restrained. YMMV.

12/15/2020 - SeaSea Likes this wine:

Drank over two days. Classic Maresh mountain strawberry, with elegance, full of life and translucent beauty. Delicious, and light on the tongue, feels as if it just starting to gain weight and sophistication. Sediment in last ounce.

With KF I think of Michael Broadbent’s notes on DRC bottles in the 1960’s. In the early years the wines are lacking color, undeveloped, though fairly sweet, with lovely potential, and at thirty years become medium weight, fuller bodied, rich, powerful, tangy, with silky tannins.

Interested to see where it goes with the ages. Not to imply that these wines are going to become Burgundy, just that they have the quality and craftsmanship to make their own Oregon path.

12/13/2020 - SeaSea Likes this wine:

Tasty, dark red berry and black cherry, spice, savory, and everything nice. Drank over two days, second better. Early window. Many years ahead. Dubay is the same vineyard that Rose & Arrow calls Stonecreek and charges 3x. Sadly Walter Scott no longer gets Dubay grapes.

12/1/2020 - SeaSea Likes this wine:

Drank slowly over 6 days. Citrus, floral, mineral. Last glass the best. Sharp edges rounded off. A gentleman’s ginger ale to savor at the end of a long day. Makes we want to tuck my newer Agraparts deep in my cellar to be enjoyed after a couple decades slumber. Why rush great experiences.

11/30/2020 - SeaSea wrote:

Less collapsed than the portly 2005 or 2008, the high test alcohol makes it not a winner for me.

11/30/2020 - SeaSea wrote:

Age is not kind.

11/27/2020 - SeaSea Likes this wine:

Lovely caramel sweetness went perfectly with thanksgiving pie.

11/27/2020 - SeaSea Likes this wine:

Delicious. With age the sharp edge of the younger releases have rounded away.

11/24/2020 - SeaSea Likes this wine:

Slightly tight the first night and faded the second.

11/22/2020 - SeaSea Likes this wine:

Delicious. More weight and spice than her Maresh offerings. This young wine is just starting to come together at age six.

11/22/2020 - SeaSea Likes this wine:

First of a case. Dark fruited, savory spice. Good finish. Young and Still a bit tight.

11/16/2020 - SeaSea Likes this wine:

Sharp citrus tasty.