October 22, 2023 - Dark red at the core, fading to the edges. Rich berry aromas. Bright and precise on the palate, cherries, strawberries, a bit of plum, moist earth. Fine tannins, lovely acidity and balance. Finishes long and gentle with strawberries. Lovely if not overly complex. Drink next 2 to 3 years.
September 14, 2020 - Very pleasant aroma of red fruits, subtle baking spices and molasses. This is sliding from its peak but is by no means fading or faded. Very light fruity finish but no bricking and nothing off. A great simple, aged Pinot.
September 28, 2015 - Might've been my last bottle. Think I've had about six -- this was the best of them though.
Still had plenty of spritz at first, and tasted kinda reduced, but after an hour this became a pleasant meatiness I thought, and sufficient dark red raspberry fruit. More balanced than previous bottles. This was heavy for a PN in my house, but not heavy.
Made me regret the five or six I'd opened a couple years ago.
March 14, 2015 - Drinking better than the last bottle, with 5 hours of air. Still not very noteworthy.
September 11, 2014 - My only bottle. Copain is the #1 producer in my cellar so that's testament enough as to how I see the winery but this doesn't ring like a Copain pinot to me. It did start with the same dissolved CO2/spritz that others have noticed. Little prickly to the palate last night, even some of it popping right after I pulled the cork from the overnight rest closing the bottle. However, the spritz does go away and is gone now from the wine so it takes some patience. Aside from that, the wine is a bit burly for my tastes, being that I have the Anderson Valley palate that Copain does so well. This wine shows a decent amount of red fruits, mainly riper raspberry and some blueberry shading, along with cola, which is the part that I don't much dig in pinot. Some like it, I used to but not so much anymore. This isn't a bad wine, it's just a little more heavier than the Copain from the northern parts and has abit denser finish. Has some finishing acidity, a bit of a funky note too. Drinks well enough now.
July 20, 2014 - This was okay...somewhat funky at first. It opened up some after an hour or so and tasted ok a day later.
March 8, 2014 - Probably drank this too early, but this bottle was one of the least appealing pinot's I have opened in a long time. Will wait on my second bottle or perhaps put it in the cooking wine bin.
November 1, 2013 - The CO2 issue has resolved and this is drinking nicely now. Good RRV dark fruit flavors.
July 4, 2013 - A good young light RRV Pinot. I think this succeeds in creating a toned-down version of the bigger wines I generally associate with the RRV, while still being true to the locale. Overall, I think I still prefer the Copain AV wines, but it is fun to actually taste wine from their beautiful estate and to see a Copain take on the RRV. A bit of air (half an hour or so in the decanter) seemed to pay off and add some weight. I didn't notice the spritz, so perhaps that stage has passed.
December 30, 2012 - spritz. odd.