Community Tasting Note

Charlie Pendejo wrote:

Thursday, October 17, 2013 - This does not taste of infanticide to me, and it really kind of bowled me over last night, after reading at various times that you need to let Abbey-Harris age for several years, and also that it disappoints years later. My glass was open for business not long after the pour, and it was fairly brilliant: meaty and earthy, a pinch of welcome (vs. roasted veg with plentiful beef sausage, anyway) tannins, a dollop of minerals, and a few squirts of "cut" in the forms of both acidity and cherry-pit bitterness. Oh, and some red fruit. I may hold onto my remaining bottle a few more years, but it's not at all disappointingly primary at this juncture.

This + the 09 Demuth make a terrific masculine/feminine pair. And they're both so dang wonderful, I'm left questioning why I've only bought Anthill once in the last couple years. Am I on the wrong CA pinot bandwagon for my palate? I think I like these more than, say, Rhys' similarly priced (and earlier-drinkin'-than-the-SVDs) appellation pinots.

tl;dnr: "savory and attractively rough-edged"

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