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• Adamrhew wrote: 98 points

  July 2, 2021 - Procured through auction from original owner, purchase on release and stored in a professional wine storage facility. Popped and poured. This bottle had so much life left! Huge red fruit, strawberries and raspberries. It developed nicely over 1.5 hour. Defiantly bricking, but wouldn't never guessed the bottle was 28 years old. As a major Beaux Freres fan and collector this was my absolute favorite. I will be on the lookout for more!
  The wine looks violet colored. The legs are medium. There is heavy sediment in the bottle. It smells like strawberry, raspberry, strawberry jam, prune, forest floor, mushroom and rose. It tastes like strawberry, raspberry, strawberry jam, forest floor and mushroom. The body is light/medium. The wine has silky texture. The wine finishes medium. The wine has medium acidity.

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• ricardito Likes this wine: 92 points

  January 23, 2020 - Original collector of these BF's and purchased a full case of 750's of the first ten vintages. Not tried one in ten years till last night. At 27 years the colour translucent dark ruby with subtle nose of mature cranberries. Palate now secondary with ripe, yet high acidity tayberry with mild balanced stem component, reminiscent of some vintages of DRC GE such as a 98 or 95. Finish long and not particularly sweet with no tertiary components or bricking noted. Looking forward to the next 10 years of these bottlings to see how fantastic they might become...

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• Burgundy Al wrote: 89 points

  March 30, 2013 - I last tried this wine approx a decade ago and tonight was thrilled how well it is showing and lively it remains. Baking spice aromas with forest floor character along with fairly mature black cherry and blackberry. Slightly more advanced on palate, but still a nice combination of earthy elements with black fruit and spice. If served blind, I could easily be convinced this was Vosne Villages.

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• KeithAkers wrote: 92 points

  July 30, 2011 - Older Oregon Pinots (Wildwood, Portland OR): nose: gorgeous and flowing nose that fills up the glass with fresh tones of violets, roses, red fruits, red currants and all sorts of fresh picked berries
  
  taste: fuller bodied and quite youthful on the palate with medium+ acidity and balanced tones of roses, red fruits, red cherries and a lot of fresh picked berries
  
  overall: This performed quite well yet again. And, like last time, it seemed to be much younger than it truly is. Well balanced with good depth on both the nose and palate, this seems like it's just getting going and has a long life ahead of it

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• LeatherPalate wrote: 93 points

  January 3, 2011 - This wine is really dark. Beautiful nose that gives you that classic Oregon plum,cranberry,pomegranate,purple florals
  and some baking spices. Nice spiciness intitially that quickly fades. The fruit is so pure and fresh on this bottle with loads of plums,
  cherries,and cranberries. There is a hint of forest floor on this with some tobacco notes that make it really wonderful.
  We consumed this over 2 nights and it got better and better with air. Wow.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1993
• Type Red
• Producer Beaux Frères
• Varietal Pinot Noir
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Beaux Frères Vineyard
• Country USA
• Region Oregon
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Yamhill County

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• In Cellars 53 (49%)
• Consumed 55 (51%)

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