Community Tasting Note

David Paris (dbp) wrote:

Tuesday, September 26, 2023 - Certainly a lot of bricked, amber hues to the color; quite beautiful and just what you want your aged Pinot to look like. The nose is a bit light, but there's some earthy forest floor right after a rain. Some herbal, brushy notes, and underripe raspberries. It's elegant and pretty. Light to medium in body on the palate, showing some drying fruit, but primarily a lot of acid develops on the palate. Less fruit there than I thought as it's primarily about the texture and the acid. It really really opens up on the finish, where you get more of everything. It really blooms with floral (violets) notes, bruised apple skin, red fruits (currents perhaps?), and really beautifully integrated acidity. Most of the tannins are fairly well resolved, but certainly still some drying tannins present. The fruit on the finish has some vibrancy to it, but it also has plenty of forest floor and mushrooms blended in there, but hey, that's exactly what you want in a nicely aged Pinot Noir. Not all Oregon Pinots evolve in this beautiful, elegant Burgundian way, but I always thought the Three Barrels had the capacity to do that... glad to see it come to fruition.

I've had this wine quite frequently over the last decade, but annoyingly this is my first note in 9 years. The wine has definitely evolved throughout that time, but the overall "enjoyment" (from a score standpoint) hasn't really moved. I suspect that right now this is on the tail of its plateau. That is to say, I suspect its not getting any better from here, and in fact, will likely only get worse. How long it rides this plateau I will see, as I still have a lot left.

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