2008 Inspiration Vineyards Pinot Noir
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richardhod Likes this wine:
Saturday, May 19, 2012 - I opened a bottle last night. Popped and poured, and it was amazing. The nose was huge fromthe beginning, it had vibrant acidity, and biig sweet ad sour cherry fruits with hints of all sorts of other redness .Rounder and fuller than Kent Rasmussen's estate Pinot, and less sour, bigger and much more accessible than Saintsbury, it has good acidity (from the higher TA than many, I think, but pH3.6 keeps it accessible), and really really good.
Minerally too, really mouth-zinging. My favourite California PN so far. Not really a patch on a great Burgundy, but you can drink it a lot sooner, and it will balance big fare too, without being dark, cola and overripe like many CA pinots. It's really really intense, with hints of swetness (no sugar, just deep concentrated fruit), and has acidity to balance. Big, but not bombastic or overbearing. If you got it a bit funky it would be really amazing
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