Community Tasting Note

grafstrb wrote:

Saturday, July 18, 2015 - Arcadian Retrospective in the O.C. (Casa del Dietz): -- bottle opened at least a couple hours before tasting --
-- tasted a single pour non-blind over 15 – 20 minutes --

What a treat to try this wine for the first (and potentially last) time! According to the winemaker, this wine is now all but gone from the winery's cellar. This was noticeably riper, or at least more fruity, than the '01 vintage of the same, which I tasted alongside. That having been said, this was still rather easy to drink, as I found it to be medium bodied. On the rich side of Pinot Noir, for Arcadian, but plenty of acidity to balance out the fruit; notes of spice, camphor, and leather added pleasant complicating notes to the mix. This struck me as being in a nice, "relaxed" adolescent stage of its evolution --- *maybe* in its prime drinking window right now, but I wouldn't be shy about waiting another couple years on it, as the fruit seemed to be mostly primary in nature. Atypical for an Arcadian Sleepy Hollow Pinot, but I liked it quite a lot.

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