Community Tasting Notes 9

• misterstarre Likes this wine: 94 points

  October 18, 2020 - Raspberry, potpurri and spice on the nose. Plenty of fine sediment in this bottle worried me a little, and this may have had some heat exposure judging by bricking in the color and a faint whiff of permanent marker stemming from a cooked fruit, compote-like note, but none of that showed up in the taste. This was a little tight on opening highlighting fresh red fruit leaning a little tart. With air, the fruit unfolded, got a touch sweeter and fuller, and I tasted that compote note I smelled earlier. With time, the body migrated from medium-light to medium. This was mostly cherry and raspberry with some stem, all accented by spice. Lovely.

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• misterstarre Likes this wine: 93 points

  March 2, 2019 - Beautiful light pinkish red color, lightly opaque. Softened, bright red fruit. Sweet cherry. Tomato confit. Stem, sage, and this Sonoma garrigue, chaparral, underbrush terroir I wish I had a name for that keeps popping up in 15+ year old pinots from the region that takes me to Pignan more than Burgundy. Missing the depth and spice of some of the Rocchioli and Hirsch I’ve had by WS. Still quite good, if not a bit more linear and focused.

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• vindictive wrote:

  August 13, 2015 - beautiful wine - very elegant at this stage - it is light garnet and cloudy with leesy sediment (botched the pour - should have decanted). Lovely complex smells that are pinot, but distinctly California. Wonderful example of how good, nuanced and terroir expressive California pinot can be. So different from the predominant style.

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• arthrovine wrote:

  May 8, 2015 - Intention was to audoze... cork fell into bottle. Cork was also mobile and soft. {sigh} need an ahso or other decent pull. Was nervous as the top of the cork was black. Poured into a decanter gently and served immediately.
  
  Nose was delicate old red toned fruit pinot with old leather nuances. Screamed history. MMs of bricking and somewhat cloudy red/brick appearance. The wine flowed across the palate with graceful acidity and delicate cherry flavors. Wine was fully resolved. Agree with gutt's assertion of slight imbalance. No alcoholic detraction. Finish was lengthy and thought-provoking. Awesome.
  
  Better than the 1996 I had recently.

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• gutt22 wrote:

  February 19, 2010 - Fully mature, with a light red color and plenty of bricking around the rim of the glass. Aromatic nose, with a still-vibrant streak of red cherry fruit on the nose, along with flowers and mushrooms. Unmistakably Allen Vineyard and Russian River Valley. In the mouth, still alive but fully resolved. Light cherry, dried flowers, spice, and mushrooms on the palate. The acidity is still kicking, putting the wine just slightly out of balance. Finish fades. A-

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• Vintage 1993
• Type Red
• Producer Williams Selyem
• Varietal Pinot Noir
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Allen Vineyard
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Sonoma County
• Appellation Russian River Valley

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• In Cellars 52 (55%)
• Consumed 43 (45%)

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