Pop and pour, last of three bottles. This did improve with air so recommend an hour decant. Earthy and savory on the palate with fleshy red fruit, mild acid, supple tannins. Drink up.
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Pop and pour. This is drinking beautifully now. Quite savory for an Oregon Pinot with muted red fruit, marzipan, saucy acid, light minerality. The Brittain is one of my favorite Ayoubs.
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This wine is ready to drink - tannins are smoothed out, fruit is definitely there but other background flavors are now in the mix, too - fennel, a little bit of mushroomy/earthy taste - all delicious. This should last to about 2021 but I wouldn't count on much longer than that.
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First of three bottles. This is starting to enter its drinking window although it's still quite young. The Brittain seems to be the most savory of Mo's offerings. Tannins are still young, although toward the end of the second day the palate turned more silky. There is good acid and like all Ayoub wines the purity on the palate is lovely. Give it a little decant if drinking now.
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Taste with Mo Ayoub at his house on solo Oregon Trip. Purple fruit. Ashy and smokey. Darker qualities. Gray peppercorns. Lots of fruit and higher tannin structure.
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nice, double decanted, drank over two nights, never quite integrated, but that maybe due to young age. Light, bright cherries, light/translucent color, short/medium finish. Would leave this a bit longer and taste again
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9/24/2020 - Quiet Lion Likes this wine: 92 Points
Pop and pour, last of three bottles. This did improve with air so recommend an hour decant. Earthy and savory on the palate with fleshy red fruit, mild acid, supple tannins. Drink up.
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12/4/2019 - Quiet Lion Likes this wine: 93 Points
Pop and pour. This is drinking beautifully now. Quite savory for an Oregon Pinot with muted red fruit, marzipan, saucy acid, light minerality. The Brittain is one of my favorite Ayoubs.
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11/2/2019 - bear Likes this wine: 92 Points
This wine is ready to drink - tannins are smoothed out, fruit is definitely there but other background flavors are now in the mix, too - fennel, a little bit of mushroomy/earthy taste - all delicious. This should last to about 2021 but I wouldn't count on much longer than that.
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10/8/2019 - Quiet Lion Likes this wine: 92 Points
First of three bottles. This is starting to enter its drinking window although it's still quite young. The Brittain seems to be the most savory of Mo's offerings. Tannins are still young, although toward the end of the second day the palate turned more silky. There is good acid and like all Ayoub wines the purity on the palate is lovely. Give it a little decant if drinking now.
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8/2/2019 - 12marshall wrote: 94 Points
Time to drink
Lovrly
Tannins crystalizing
Perfectly balanced ... raspberries on the finnish
Big enough for a good ribeye.
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8/19/2017 - ksteiner Likes this wine: 90 Points
A bit of cherry cola.
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7/26/2017 - GasperTheWineGuy wrote: 86 Points
The acidity overtakes the fruit in this one. OK but I have to admit I'm disapointed.
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3/20/2016 - beezer6 wrote: 91 Points
Taste with Mo Ayoub at his house on solo Oregon Trip.
Purple fruit. Ashy and smokey. Darker qualities. Gray peppercorns. Lots of fruit and higher tannin structure.
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2/22/2016 - W2WineGuy Likes this wine: 90 Points
similar note, nice wine, drank over multiple days, double decanted, went down smooth.
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2/19/2016 - W2WineGuy Likes this wine: 89 Points
nice, double decanted, drank over two nights, never quite integrated, but that maybe due to young age. Light, bright cherries, light/translucent color, short/medium finish. Would leave this a bit longer and taste again
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