This is the best Rhys I think I have ever had. Notes of silky black cherry, black plum, and kirsch liqueur over an elegant and restrained frame of sweet baking spices. Balance and a delight to drink. In a very good spot now; I see no reason for holding on to it much longer.
One of, if not the most compelling bottle of Rhys PN I've had. Constantly shifting nose with sweet red cherry, spice, cola, and mineral. At moments it was fruity and sweet, at others savory. Very harmonious in the mouth, with relaxed mature fruit but also energy from the acidity and light remaining tannins. Expansive finish. Impressive wine.
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There was a slight issue with the cork. There was clearly a touch of wine on top of the cork. Just enough to show right along where it touched the bottle. Once pulled, there was a narrow streak up the cork that was the breach. It looked minor enough I wasn't so concerned but its certainly worth noting. I bought this from the winery and stored it in a professional facility ever since. The wine showed quite stemmy initially. Strongly enough that no one at the table really took to it. I brought the last quarter of the bottle home. Overnight the stemmy quality mellowed and almost came off like a strong mineral thing. This allow the maturing fruit to show giving up some strawberry, rhubarb and cranberry. The mouthfeel bordered on the silky yet with plenty of tannin. It was nice for the geeks out there. Challenging that way. Maybe the cork break tempered the fruit enough this showed less than it could. Maybe its just the way it is.
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Served blind, which included the 2009 Swan Terrace in the flight. To me, the Skyline is better. Why? It is starting to show a bit of age, so there is some cedar and tobacco floating about but it's a light seasoning. The fruit is tangy and red, with a weightless quality and a mineral finish. The fruit perception to me remains fresh, and aside from the light imprint of some age, this was showing excellent.
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Beautiful exotic aromas. The palate has good texture with melting tannins. Raspberry, florals, becoming a little more tannic with air, but a seriously delicious wine.
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Rather dark in hue. Some signs of age with a black, blood red color. Nose is quite fragrant and complex with spiced red berry fruit, Asian teas, herbs, and dried rose notes. Palate has a elegant and soft fine cotton texture (not quite silk) with mediums weight red fruit flavors supported by a nice backbone of acidity and still quite fine, ripe tannins that provide some dryness and puckering on the very long finish. This has great balance and harmony throughout in ripe, dark red fruit style that is typical for California grown Pinot, but with more mineral lift and drive than is typical. Drinking wonderfully now with the structure to continue to age, although I agree I’m not sure it improves from here.
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Rhys Wine Dinner (RPM Steak - Chicago IL): More red than black fruit with nice supporting cast of floral, spice, structure, and earth characteristics. Fruit is clearly ripe, but everything is easily balanced. Very good now, this should hold/drink well for another decade, but I doubt there is further upside.
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NR - Cork failed and wine was leaking from under the foil. Wine was oxidized. This wine was stored in a professional temperature controlled cellar since release.
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12.6% abv. Medium dark burgundy red, moderately aromatic. Black raspberry, baking spice and mint highlight the palate impression. Medium depth and length. This is an energetic, fairly light bodied wine that is drinking well now, but will probably not benefit from further cellar time.
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Rich, dense red berries -- cherry and red currant -- in kind of a sweet-tart balance, with green herbs and exotic spices joining in. Good structure sustains the fruit so that for all the richness and intensity, it never feels fat. Everything seems harmonious. Delicious and dangerously easy to drink.
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PnP, enjoyed over the next 4 hours. Served with salmon. Very aromatic with cherry, florals, herb, earth and spice. Lots of flavor with cherry, strawberry, herb, earth, spice, stems. Good acidity keeps the wine vibrant. Long smooth finish. showing really well now, but no hurry to open my last bottle. Better than at release, time has been good to this wine.
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Popped and poured. Medium ruby color. Nose of dark berry, fennel, iodine, damp earth, violets. On the palate, ripe dark plum, black raspberry, and pomegranate on initial attack with a second, deeper wave of richness and concentration on each sip. Hits of iron and currant also. Moderate acidity and still structured tannin drenched by dense fruit. Long, extended finish of same lower-pitched plum fruit with a bit of candied cherry alongside, accompanied by stone and grip. Very impressive but just beginning its journey. With some additional age and complexity, look out.
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Pop and pour and served slightly above cellar temp, and allowed to warm up over time. Deep garnet color. Clear. Enjoyable aromas of fresh red berries, some sandalwood notes and floral notes. Hint of wood smoke. Nice fresh red berries, in a lively yet elegant package. Some red cherry and blackberry fruits. Acidity gives it lift and keeps it refreshing. Enjoyable. As this has warmed, it has taken on a bit more weight and shows a bit more of brown spice notes. Some darker fruits, but with that zesty acidity that raises the fruit and keeps this lively.
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Needs air to open up. Starts out rusty and more evolved than anticipated (the Horseshoe is still sweet and fruity). But with a few hours it turns super-silky and while it never gets to the point of showing any overtly ripe fruit, it does pick up some more restrained blackberry and cranberry shades, laced with gravel on the back.
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Light on its feet and walking the line. Everything is there but the savoriness really shines. Mid-stride but plenty ready. Def not your typical Cali PN. Thanks to FMIII.
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Decanted for ~30 minutes. A truly impressive bottle that was heads and tails superior to an '09 Horseshoe Pinot i had a couple of weeks ago (which was quite rich with overt stems). Everything about this Pinot is in harmony. Bright, complex nose with layers of cherry, florals, herb, earth and spice. The palate has concentration but is so light on it's feet and airy. Long, silky finish. Stellar and drinking very well now.
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Initially a fantastic nose, cherry, strawberry, underbrush and forest floor, nice balanced red fruits, silky palate with cream and spice. It is not all that big and with air it actually gets a bit softer. The finish builds a bit after a somewhat flat mid-palate. Drinks well now, but should last another 5 years easy before any decline. Very good, but not worth the current market value IMO.
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The nose on this wine is spectacular, showing sandalwood, Asian spice and mineral laced chalky black fruits. The palate is silky showing a low alcohol, saline infused texture, with moderate sweetness and some brown sugar flavor. It's a little hollow on the mid palate and short on the finish, lacking energy and acidity it's showing older than 6 years.
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Rhys @ QCH (Quality Chop House, London): Very floaty and fragrant in a subtle, nuanced way. This would be wonderful in a proper burg glass.approaching the ethereal, but not quite as good as the 08 a couple of years ago. The consensus is that it lingers rather than shows traditional length, but there's a definite echo around the mouth. *****
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fantastic, sweet, floral aromatics anchored by lavender and earth. sweet flavors of red fruits and lush texture up front that give way to a dark core, and a raw, tannic roughness. there's a fun paradox here of obviousness, pureness and transparency set alongside something unyielding, hidden and unresolved. hints of profound balance and tension, but it will take time.
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Rhys Tasting With The Gang (My House): Tasted alongside the 2010 and 2011 Skyline. This 2009 is sexy, a bit candied of red fruits with lots of blue fruit woven in, juicy and expressive.
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Popped and poured. Red fruits, dusty spice and cloves displayed on the very pure, elegant and ultimately alluring nose. This wine is one of the few new world wines that can pull off that lovely spicy and stem-derived nose that would not be out of place in a lineup of young DRC wines. The palate is a touch sweet but carries precise red berry flavors wrapped in some very fine grained tannins with remarkable length. My best Rhys to date and I only wish I had more than 1 left.
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Decanted for 2 hrs. From memory. Starts off very lithe and elegant with black fruits, a bit of earth, and minerals. As time goes on, gains more weight and moves toward the black/blue fruit spectrum. Day 2 is definitely in blue/black fruits with more noticeable tannins and weight. Definitely young and needs more time but still delicious.
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OK, but only OK. I double-decanted at 4:30, started drinking at 7:30, and followed the bottle over several hours. It opened with warm red fruits and some clove, along with expensive French oak. As with the 2004 Family Farm I had last week, I am impressed by the weight and texture, and the aromatics are nice. If I strained, I thought I could see some minerality on the back end, but really not very much. I am struggling to understand the hype, to see the depth or interest of the site that others do. After all, this is about the price of Angerville's Taillepieds, Mongeard-Mungeret's Echezeaux, Brovia's C'a Mia, more than ten-year-old Mount Edens...
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Burgundy Dinner after Burgundy Tasting (Sun Wah and Chez Schmidt): Aromas of bright raspberry and strawberry with some sweet, baked pie spice and new oak. Same good red fruit on palate with good acidity and elegant tannins that provide good support towards a fairly long finish. Probably better after 2014 or 2015. If tasted blind, I could easily have been convinced this was from Chambolle-Musigny. Well done.
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Santa Cruz Mountains Day 2 (Rhys, Big Basin, Plumed Horse): Tasted non blind at the winery with Jeff. Bottle had been slow oxed for around 4 hours. Beautiful, dark, musky, floral nose. On the palate it has baking spices, earth and some exotic perfume elements. The really isnt much fruit showing at this point. The finish is medium long length with lavender and violets being at the forefront. Hold this one for a few to several years. 91-93.
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non blind. lovely deep rich color in glass. nose jumps little from the glass with nice black and blue fruits. palate is nice and rich, with just a hint of hollowness on the back palate. perhaps a function of its younger age - would expect the palate to really grow on this one. finish is well balanced but again i think suffers from younger age. tad short at this point. i believe this will get better with some bottle age.
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Decanted. Black cherry core, dark rose meniscus. Reticent aromas. Chalky soil, sous bois, sweet rubber, rose petal, mineral, raspberry leaf, cinnamon stick, cherry pit, plum extract, black tea. Rich, fine mocha tannin, moderate acid, lovely velvet texture, long persistence. Soft, gentle but edgy and taunt. The perfume is haunting only after a few hours in the decanter. Stellar. Hold, 2013-2025.
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Rhys Visit--All The 2009s From Bottle! (Rhys Estate (At The Winery)): 12.6%, 50% new wood and 100% whole cluster. As opposed to the Family Farm that preceded this wine, this Skyline shows the stems in my view to be far more integrated. There is a kiss of new oak on the aromatic and also a really cool rose petal note. A spicy and racier style with beautiful minerality and a mix of blue and red fruit, with a citrus zest in the finsh. Love the rose petal and balance of this wine.
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1/15/2024 - Paul Lin wrote: 92 Points
This is the best Rhys I think I have ever had. Notes of silky black cherry, black plum, and kirsch liqueur over an elegant and restrained frame of sweet baking spices. Balance and a delight to drink. In a very good spot now; I see no reason for holding on to it much longer.
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6/18/2023 - jlm wrote:
One of, if not the most compelling bottle of Rhys PN I've had. Constantly shifting nose with sweet red cherry, spice, cola, and mineral. At moments it was fruity and sweet, at others savory. Very harmonious in the mouth, with relaxed mature fruit but also energy from the acidity and light remaining tannins. Expansive finish. Impressive wine.
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3/12/2023 - WetRock wrote:
There was a slight issue with the cork. There was clearly a touch of wine on top of the cork. Just enough to show right along where it touched the bottle. Once pulled, there was a narrow streak up the cork that was the breach. It looked minor enough I wasn't so concerned but its certainly worth noting. I bought this from the winery and stored it in a professional facility ever since.
The wine showed quite stemmy initially. Strongly enough that no one at the table really took to it. I brought the last quarter of the bottle home. Overnight the stemmy quality mellowed and almost came off like a strong mineral thing. This allow the maturing fruit to show giving up some strawberry, rhubarb and cranberry. The mouthfeel bordered on the silky yet with plenty of tannin. It was nice for the geeks out there. Challenging that way. Maybe the cork break tempered the fruit enough this showed less than it could. Maybe its just the way it is.
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3/12/2023 - mlawren1 wrote: 95 Points
Wine is singing, strawberries and raspberries just float out of the glass. Long smooth finish gives way to a little earth. Great wine.
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10/3/2022 - Frank Murray III wrote:
Served blind, which included the 2009 Swan Terrace in the flight. To me, the Skyline is better. Why? It is starting to show a bit of age, so there is some cedar and tobacco floating about but it's a light seasoning. The fruit is tangy and red, with a weightless quality and a mineral finish. The fruit perception to me remains fresh, and aside from the light imprint of some age, this was showing excellent.
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9/11/2022 - Diane (LI) wrote:
Beautiful exotic aromas. The palate has good texture with melting tannins. Raspberry, florals, becoming a little more tannic with air, but a seriously delicious wine.
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3/6/2022 - SB5784 Likes this wine: 92 Points
Rather dark in hue. Some signs of age with a black, blood red color. Nose is quite fragrant and complex with spiced red berry fruit, Asian teas, herbs, and dried rose notes. Palate has a elegant and soft fine cotton texture (not quite silk) with mediums weight red fruit flavors supported by a nice backbone of acidity and still quite fine, ripe tannins that provide some dryness and puckering on the very long finish. This has great balance and harmony throughout in ripe, dark red fruit style that is typical for California grown Pinot, but with more mineral lift and drive than is typical. Drinking wonderfully now with the structure to continue to age, although I agree I’m not sure it improves from here.
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2/13/2022 - nphase wrote:
either going through a dumb phase or starting to go over the hill
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12/20/2021 - pjhr Likes this wine: 93 Points
Delicious slightly sour red cherries with earth and spice notes on the nose and palate with a long savory finish.
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9/21/2021 - Burgundy Al wrote: 91 Points
Rhys Wine Dinner (RPM Steak - Chicago IL): More red than black fruit with nice supporting cast of floral, spice, structure, and earth characteristics. Fruit is clearly ripe, but everything is easily balanced. Very good now, this should hold/drink well for another decade, but I doubt there is further upside.
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7/19/2021 - fisk15 wrote: flawed
NR - Cork failed and wine was leaking from under the foil. Wine was oxidized. This wine was stored in a professional temperature controlled cellar since release.
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6/1/2021 - Mike Dildine Likes this wine: 93 Points
12.6% abv. Medium dark burgundy red, moderately aromatic. Black raspberry, baking spice and mint highlight the palate impression. Medium depth and length. This is an energetic, fairly light bodied wine that is drinking well now, but will probably not benefit from further cellar time.
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3/5/2021 - ChrisR Likes this wine:
Rich, dense red berries -- cherry and red currant -- in kind of a sweet-tart balance, with green herbs and exotic spices joining in. Good structure sustains the fruit so that for all the richness and intensity, it never feels fat. Everything seems harmonious. Delicious and dangerously easy to drink.
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11/13/2020 - gharter Likes this wine: 92 Points
PnP, enjoyed over the next 4 hours. Served with salmon. Very aromatic with cherry, florals, herb, earth and spice. Lots of flavor with cherry, strawberry, herb, earth, spice, stems. Good acidity keeps the wine vibrant. Long smooth finish. showing really well now, but no hurry to open my last bottle. Better than at release, time has been good to this wine.
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4/18/2020 - DougLee wrote: 92 Points
Popped and poured. Medium ruby color. Nose of dark berry, fennel, iodine, damp earth, violets. On the palate, ripe dark plum, black raspberry, and pomegranate on initial attack with a second, deeper wave of richness and concentration on each sip. Hits of iron and currant also. Moderate acidity and still structured tannin drenched by dense fruit. Long, extended finish of same lower-pitched plum fruit with a bit of candied cherry alongside, accompanied by stone and grip. Very impressive but just beginning its journey. With some additional age and complexity, look out.
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8/12/2019 - t_moderne wrote: 92 Points
Pop and pour and served slightly above cellar temp, and allowed to warm up over time.
Deep garnet color. Clear.
Enjoyable aromas of fresh red berries, some sandalwood notes and floral notes. Hint of wood smoke.
Nice fresh red berries, in a lively yet elegant package. Some red cherry and blackberry fruits. Acidity gives it lift and keeps it refreshing.
Enjoyable.
As this has warmed, it has taken on a bit more weight and shows a bit more of brown spice notes. Some darker fruits, but with that zesty acidity that raises the fruit and keeps this lively.
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8/10/2019 - Keith Levenberg wrote:
Needs air to open up. Starts out rusty and more evolved than anticipated (the Horseshoe is still sweet and fruity). But with a few hours it turns super-silky and while it never gets to the point of showing any overtly ripe fruit, it does pick up some more restrained blackberry and cranberry shades, laced with gravel on the back.
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12/1/2018 - vulgar little monkey wrote: 89 Points
Well made and mannered wine, just boring.
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4/14/2017 - jmw17 Likes this wine:
Light on its feet and walking the line. Everything is there but the savoriness really shines. Mid-stride but plenty ready. Def not your typical Cali PN. Thanks to FMIII.
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8/27/2016 - Nanda wrote: 94 Points
Decanted for ~30 minutes. A truly impressive bottle that was heads and tails superior to an '09 Horseshoe Pinot i had a couple of weeks ago (which was quite rich with overt stems). Everything about this Pinot is in harmony. Bright, complex nose with layers of cherry, florals, herb, earth and spice. The palate has concentration but is so light on it's feet and airy. Long, silky finish. Stellar and drinking very well now.
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7/23/2016 - pakabear Likes this wine: 92 Points
Initially a fantastic nose, cherry, strawberry, underbrush and forest floor, nice balanced red fruits, silky palate with cream and spice. It is not all that big and with air it actually gets a bit softer. The finish builds a bit after a somewhat flat mid-palate. Drinks well now, but should last another 5 years easy before any decline. Very good, but not worth the current market value IMO.
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2/6/2016 - llink wrote: 94 Points
The nose on this wine is spectacular, showing sandalwood, Asian spice and mineral laced chalky black fruits. The palate is silky showing a low alcohol, saline infused texture, with moderate sweetness and some brown sugar flavor. It's a little hollow on the mid palate and short on the finish, lacking energy and acidity it's showing older than 6 years.
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11/19/2015 - SimonG wrote: 95 Points
Rhys @ QCH (Quality Chop House, London): Very floaty and fragrant in a subtle, nuanced way. This would be wonderful in a proper burg glass.approaching the ethereal, but not quite as good as the 08 a couple of years ago. The consensus is that it lingers rather than shows traditional length, but there's a definite echo around the mouth. *****
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6/28/2015 - Stumpy wrote:
Did not rate as cork was stained up the side and don't think this was showing its best
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4/11/2015 - swp3 wrote:
fantastic, sweet, floral aromatics anchored by lavender and earth. sweet flavors of red fruits and lush texture up front that give way to a dark core, and a raw, tannic roughness. there's a fun paradox here of obviousness, pureness and transparency set alongside something unyielding, hidden and unresolved. hints of profound balance and tension, but it will take time.
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2/26/2015 - rralls wrote: 94 Points
I though this was the best of all the '09 SVDs (minus the Horseshoe which we didn't have)
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11/12/2014 - shaferguy91 wrote: 92 Points
1 hour decant.
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10/11/2014 - Frank Murray III wrote:
Rhys Tasting With The Gang (My House): Tasted alongside the 2010 and 2011 Skyline. This 2009 is sexy, a bit candied of red fruits with lots of blue fruit woven in, juicy and expressive.
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3/16/2014 - Acohen wrote: 94 Points
Superb new world pinot with intensity of fruit, slight spice and long whispering finish. Subtle but intense with great balance
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9/29/2013 - llink wrote: 95 Points
Popped and poured. Red fruits, dusty spice and cloves displayed on the very pure, elegant and ultimately alluring nose. This wine is one of the few new world wines that can pull off that lovely spicy and stem-derived nose that would not be out of place in a lineup of young DRC wines. The palate is a touch sweet but carries precise red berry flavors wrapped in some very fine grained tannins with remarkable length. My best Rhys to date and I only wish I had more than 1 left.
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9/10/2013 - James Kim wrote: 91 Points
Decanted for 2 hrs. From memory. Starts off very lithe and elegant with black fruits, a bit of earth, and minerals. As time goes on, gains more weight and moves toward the black/blue fruit spectrum. Day 2 is definitely in blue/black fruits with more noticeable tannins and weight. Definitely young and needs more time but still delicious.
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8/25/2012 - 14frimaire wrote:
OK, but only OK. I double-decanted at 4:30, started drinking at 7:30, and followed the bottle over several hours. It opened with warm red fruits and some clove, along with expensive French oak. As with the 2004 Family Farm I had last week, I am impressed by the weight and texture, and the aromatics are nice. If I strained, I thought I could see some minerality on the back end, but really not very much. I am struggling to understand the hype, to see the depth or interest of the site that others do. After all, this is about the price of Angerville's Taillepieds, Mongeard-Mungeret's Echezeaux, Brovia's C'a Mia, more than ten-year-old Mount Edens...
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4/21/2012 - Melli wrote: 91 Points
Too young
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4/1/2012 - Burgundy Al wrote: 92 Points
Burgundy Dinner after Burgundy Tasting (Sun Wah and Chez Schmidt): Aromas of bright raspberry and strawberry with some sweet, baked pie spice and new oak. Same good red fruit on palate with good acidity and elegant tannins that provide good support towards a fairly long finish. Probably better after 2014 or 2015. If tasted blind, I could easily have been convinced this was from Chambolle-Musigny. Well done.
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3/23/2012 - floydtp wrote:
Santa Cruz Mountains Day 2 (Rhys, Big Basin, Plumed Horse): Tasted non blind at the winery with Jeff. Bottle had been slow oxed for around 4 hours. Beautiful, dark, musky, floral nose. On the palate it has baking spices, earth and some exotic perfume elements. The really isnt much fruit showing at this point. The finish is medium long length with lavender and violets being at the forefront. Hold this one for a few to several years. 91-93.
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3/10/2012 - jc-mmb wrote: 93 Points
non blind. lovely deep rich color in glass. nose jumps little from the glass with nice black and blue fruits. palate is nice and rich, with just a hint of hollowness on the back palate. perhaps a function of its younger age - would expect the palate to really grow on this one. finish is well balanced but again i think suffers from younger age. tad short at this point. i believe this will get better with some bottle age.
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9/6/2011 - sethmorgenlong wrote:
Decanted. Black cherry core, dark rose meniscus. Reticent aromas. Chalky soil, sous bois, sweet rubber, rose petal, mineral, raspberry leaf, cinnamon stick, cherry pit, plum extract, black tea. Rich, fine mocha tannin, moderate acid, lovely velvet texture, long persistence. Soft, gentle but edgy and taunt. The perfume is haunting only after a few hours in the decanter. Stellar. Hold, 2013-2025.
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3/17/2011 - Frank Murray III wrote:
Rhys Visit--All The 2009s From Bottle! (Rhys Estate (At The Winery)): 12.6%, 50% new wood and 100% whole cluster. As opposed to the Family Farm that preceded this wine, this Skyline shows the stems in my view to be far more integrated. There is a kiss of new oak on the aromatic and also a really cool rose petal note. A spicy and racier style with beautiful minerality and a mix of blue and red fruit, with a citrus zest in the finsh. Love the rose petal and balance of this wine.
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3/13/2011 - norsktorsk wrote: 94 Points
Absolutely beautiful pinot. Deep rich color, beautiful mineral nose. Full mid palate with a long rich finish.
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