Lovely year in this vertical. Dried cranberries, leather, pepper, nice finish. Tannins fully resolved, no bitterness, medium finish. Should hold up for at least a few more years, a slight amount of bricking.
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Opened for 90 minutes and drank as one of a vertical, 2004-2007. The '04 was the hit. Loved by all. The '05 was bigger, fruitier. Those who liked that style raved about it. The '06 was more restrained, especially after the '06, but I found it much more complex and interesting. The '07 was corked. (We also had an '09 Ken Wright Nysa vineyard, which blew everyone's socks off, plus several others '07 & '09 Dundee Hills Pinots.)
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Remember when everyone was saying the 2007 Oregon vintage was thin and weedy? Well, this is a heavyweight both in terms of its footprint and the sheer density of the material, which fortunately isn't jammy at all but finessed it ain't. I don't know how it will evolve from here but it doesn't seem to be showing much evolution yet; I spent dinner waiting for the shell to crack and show what's underneath but it never really got there. Nysa Vineyard is high on the hills, adjacent to Domaine Drouhin. Other producers make it but this is the vineyard proprietor's own label, and apparently from the older plantings which would probably be about 25 years old by now. The sommelier says the owner is a good friend and a brain surgeon who selected the plant material in the vineyard by identifying the vines that made the best clusters each year and grafting their shoots onto other vines. At Recipe in Newberg, Oregon.
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4/8/2023 - deadlyapp Likes this wine: 91 Points
Lovely year in this vertical. Dried cranberries, leather, pepper, nice finish. Tannins fully resolved, no bitterness, medium finish. Should hold up for at least a few more years, a slight amount of bricking.
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7/10/2022 - Zortapa Likes this wine: 92 Points
Another terrific PN. But more if you can.
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12/9/2021 - Peytonca wrote:
Not much flavor
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10/13/2021 - klezman wrote:
This was good, but faded after being open a couple hours.
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8/28/2015 - Ed B wrote:
Opened for 90 minutes and drank as one of a vertical, 2004-2007. The '04 was the hit. Loved by all. The '05 was bigger, fruitier. Those who liked that style raved about it. The '06 was more restrained, especially after the '06, but I found it much more complex and interesting. The '07 was corked. (We also had an '09 Ken Wright Nysa vineyard, which blew everyone's socks off, plus several others '07 & '09 Dundee Hills Pinots.)
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7/3/2015 - Keith Levenberg wrote:
Remember when everyone was saying the 2007 Oregon vintage was thin and weedy? Well, this is a heavyweight both in terms of its footprint and the sheer density of the material, which fortunately isn't jammy at all but finessed it ain't. I don't know how it will evolve from here but it doesn't seem to be showing much evolution yet; I spent dinner waiting for the shell to crack and show what's underneath but it never really got there. Nysa Vineyard is high on the hills, adjacent to Domaine Drouhin. Other producers make it but this is the vineyard proprietor's own label, and apparently from the older plantings which would probably be about 25 years old by now. The sommelier says the owner is a good friend and a brain surgeon who selected the plant material in the vineyard by identifying the vines that made the best clusters each year and grafting their shoots onto other vines. At Recipe in Newberg, Oregon.
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