Community Tasting Note

Mike Kopanski wrote:

Saturday, April 7, 2012 - Giant Wine Sale & Tasting 4/7/2012 (Cellar on Greene, Columbia, SC): We now have had several vintages of this stellar wine to enjoy, and this may be the best. This is a big, dark Pinot, packed with flavor and richness. Very California in style, the fruit is dominant in the flavor profile, but there is a lot more going on. The color is very dark for a Pinot. The style is bold and heavy. The nose has big blueberry, fresh broken twig tree sap, herbal spiciness, wet earth, and black cherry. Expressive, but soft, rounded, and ready to drink concentrated blueberry, blackberry and plum fruit. Plenty of new French oak. For a Pinot, the viscosity is almost syrupy. There is a cool climate, what I thought was Sonoma Coast, but obviously includes Monterrey and Santa Barbara, rustic, earthy, evergreen with caramel flavor. Quite well integrated considering it's relative youth. You get the alcohol on the palate, but it is not intrusive. The heavy duty finish is oakey, earthy, vanilla and black cherry.

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