Community Tasting Note

OregonLoafer wrote:

Saturday, September 28, 2019 - Bottle and cork were in great shape. This wasn’t dead but it’s definitely well past peak. Interesting to drink, plenty of acid left but all the flavors are a bit muddled. Great aged Pinot aromas, floral and leathery and dirty, similar on the palate but without enough intensity or focus, and not quite enough structure.

This is my first experience with an older Ken Wright. I wasn’t sure how it would hold up. Really enjoy his wines but they’re also very delicate in my relatively limited experience - that’s part of the appeal for me but maybe they don’t all have the structure to go 20 years. That said, this is just one bottling, and I know Shea’s vines were still on the young side in 1999.

Drink em if you got em, I don’t expect it’ll get better.

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