Community Tasting Note

Frank Murray III wrote:

Thursday, January 15, 2015 - February '15 Bookclub--Hosted by SPK (wines tasted blind) (Red Table--Huntington Beach, CA): Tasted blind. As I swirled this wine in the glass, tasted the flavors, it felt like Anderson Valley to me but the higher ripeness level kept getting in the way. Ultimately, I landed with 2009 Copain, calling it Monument Tree, which was a close guess. The reason I landed with '09 is that I have found that to be a year for Copain that has been riper than I tend to prefer these days. As we talked about this wine around the table while it was still bagged, I guessed at an ABV around 14.5 to 14.8, which was off about a point, as the wine I believe was labeled at 13.7%. For Wells and the new era style, this is about as high as I think he would want the wines to go. Riper styled charred raspberry and black cherry flavors, with just a little apple hanging around to give a clue as to the AV fruit. And a few of us, me included, we thought there might be some stem in here, as there is a stalky note but I do believe this vintage was all de-stemmed. A touch of heat too on the aromatic and also some crushed rock in the palate. Not bad, and what seems to really for me help the '09 Copain pinots is to make sure they are drank with a light chill to reign in the vintage.

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