Not showing well at all. Popped and poured from the bottle, consumed over 4 hours. Sadly, I was stuck with a rotting vegetable funk, super reductive, no fruit or any other typical pinot flavors. Bummer, I heard great things about this bottling- chalking this off to bottle variance.
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Served alongside Talley's more expensive flagship pinot, the Rosemary's. Surprisingly, this is going to be the longer-lived wine, there's actually some youthfulness in the fruit and more vivid acidity. Where I'd call it on the former at 2020, I'd happily leave these to 2023 or more.
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Subsequent notes on this wine. Medium garnet in color with slight clearing at the edges. Forward & attractive nose of ripe fruits aromas of red cherries, blueberries & plums with overtones of floral notes of violets & spices, mocha, earthy/dusty, cherry-cola, truffles, minerals, smoky, vanilla and a slight hint of sous-bois in the background. Medium bodied with a very good concentration of well balanced & smooth textured, ripe fruit flavors of tart cherries, sweet blueberries & red plums, with earthy, mushrooms, Asian spices, mocha, minerals and just a touch of vanilla. Smooth lingering finish. Definitely at its peak of development but even at 12 years of age, it may hold for a few more years if cellared properly.
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PNP. Cork perfect. Medium garnet w bricking edges. Nose w cola five spice and a whiff of etoh. Swishing shows tannin and acid structure almost tingly in the mouth. Sipping this shows med weight and length with dark fruit and great polish and mouthfeel. Really superb.
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Medium garnet in color with slight clearing at the edges. Forward & attractive nose redolent of ripe red fruits aromas of cherries, berries & plums with lovely secondary floral notes of roses & sweet freesia, cocoa, earthy, white truffles, some spices and a hint of vanilla in the background. Medium bodied with a very good concentration of well balanced & developed, velvety smooth ripe red fruit flavors of tart cherries, sweet berries & plums, with tertiary notes of earthy, mushrooms, Asian spices and just a touch of vanilla. Silky smooth lingering finish. Definitely at its peak of development and may hold for a few more years if cellared properly.
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The robe shows just a hint of oxidation at the edge, perhaps a sign this is mature. On the contrary, the nose blasts candied fruit and little else. There's no sign of earth or minerality, nor anything tertiary here. If you're into fruit bombs drink up. Open two hours this had not evolved at all, still very fruit forward and one dimensional. There's great balance here between fruit and alcohol, he says sarcastically. This would not do on Thanksgiving day for the guests. Out came the 05 Lequin-Colin Chassagne vieilles vignes rouge which was excellent, and down the drain went the second half of the Talley.
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Was not expecting this wine to this good, and now I'm sorry I only purchased one bottle. Bursting cherry flavor with very nice acidity. Will not disappoint.
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Looking back at my notes for this wine, it just goes to show you that once a 93, always a 93. It's been 4 years since bottle #1, and this one is still very much alive, with all of the pieces and not enough age. A nice, briary nose woth dark red pitted (and other) fruit, A large, round mouth that's just coming round into middle age. The length seems short for the rest of the package (drink now rather than later?) but is nively defined with more abstract notes than concrete ones. Perhaps the abstract length counts as a real length? (I'm not kidding on this one...)
I'd say wait until 2013 for the rest of the bottles. See what's up.
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Still one of my favorite Rincon pinots. This one was a tiny bit muddy, but quite tasty and quite in the moment. I think - personally - that it'd benefit from another few years, at which point it would be something truly ethereal.
Save the last bottles until 2014.
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Tangy - a bit on the tangy side of tangy. Good mouth, a tiny bit tangy, but otherwise well balanaced. Length is good, nose is almost good. Seems to have lost a bt of its outright extravagence - not clear whether or not that's a good outcome.
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shared this with others after the Talley tasting at old doc's (the 07 Stone Corral was my favorite red or white by far).
no formal notes taken at the time, but my memory says: cork was absolutely perfect. Deep red color, slightly cloudy, and no bricking. Nose took about 10 minutes to emerge. Hypnotic nose of red fruit, brambly spice and wild flowers. This wine manages to ballance the big fruit with enough acidity to keep it from becoming a fruit bomb (it was a ripe vintage, but Rincon has enough natural acidity... and the only use about 1/3rd new oak).
Just starting to hit it's peak right now, and will probably stay there for a few years. Excellent!
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Suave, sexy, full in the mouth. Brambly Rincon nose, still-intense mouth of many different red berries. The length (the least strong facet) is a bit strident and a bit short compared to the rest of the wine. Still an outstanding bottle.
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Very nice deep, dark nose that is still amazingly sharp. Sauve in the mouth, with ripe red/black cherries and a good amount of dark grass. Persistent length of... of... of very nice wine. Still quite rich, but shows a bright future - if it lasts that long.
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Here we are in 2009, and this wine has changed considerably since the first bottle two years ago. Be warned - it still takes 30 minutes to open and come to be one with itself - but the wine has changed from "heavy to heavy/light" to moderate, with a spectacular mouth feel. The nose is the lightest part - and I'd say bordering on marginal - but the mouth is silky and full without being overbearing, and the length is on it's way to etheral. Still primarily fruity, with some briarpatch as appeared in last night's Rosemary's, but this one is the complete package now, with lots of stuffing, and should stay as such for quite some time.
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Opened two bottles and they were good from the start. If I remember correctly this had a pretty hard edge when it was released but it is now silky smooth and wonderful.
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Really nice rich and very ripe fruit. Needs a little time to meld together and should improve with some bottle age. The 03 Dehl. was better tonight but not by much.
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Takes about 45 minutes to open up, and the wine goes from viscous and indeterminate and heavy to something that's lighter and cleaner and more pronounced in what it has to say. The nose is light and airy and light-red colored and the length is long and very well defined - earth and mushrooms and light red fruit. Very nice. The mouth is full and a bit angular, with intense red fruit (canned cherries and cranberries, mainly) with some pepper and some dirt. A nice effort.
Try next in 2009.
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Young and delicious. An hour+ of air was required before this opened up; at first, it tasted overwrought and compacted, but it gained its footing soon enough. Nice combination of ripe, rich fruit framed by acids and manageable tannin. An impulsive opening that performed well, but should continue to improve.
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5/27/2020 - HandmadeHomemade wrote:
Not showing well at all. Popped and poured from the bottle, consumed over 4 hours. Sadly, I was stuck with a rotting vegetable funk, super reductive, no fruit or any other typical pinot flavors. Bummer, I heard great things about this bottling- chalking this off to bottle variance.
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4/30/2019 - Neecies Likes this wine:
Served alongside Talley's more expensive flagship pinot, the Rosemary's. Surprisingly, this is going to be the longer-lived wine, there's actually some youthfulness in the fruit and more vivid acidity. Where I'd call it on the former at 2020, I'd happily leave these to 2023 or more.
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10/16/2018 - chcook Likes this wine:
this is still going strong.
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3/1/2016 - Vinnut Likes this wine: 93 Points
Subsequent notes on this wine. Medium garnet in color with slight clearing at the edges. Forward & attractive nose of ripe fruits aromas of red cherries, blueberries & plums with overtones of floral notes of violets & spices, mocha, earthy/dusty, cherry-cola, truffles, minerals, smoky, vanilla and a slight hint of sous-bois in the background. Medium bodied with a very good concentration of well balanced & smooth textured, ripe fruit flavors of tart cherries, sweet blueberries & red plums, with earthy, mushrooms, Asian spices, mocha, minerals and just a touch of vanilla. Smooth lingering finish. Definitely at its peak of development but even at 12 years of age, it may hold for a few more years if cellared properly.
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9/8/2014 - chcook Likes this wine:
PNP. Cork perfect. Medium garnet w bricking edges. Nose w cola five spice and a whiff of etoh. Swishing shows tannin and acid structure almost tingly in the mouth. Sipping this shows med weight and length with dark fruit and great polish and mouthfeel. Really superb.
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8/20/2014 - WineDoctors wrote: 92 Points
garnet, color to rim, medium acid, l-medium body, long finish, silky tannins, still well balanced, fruit is still structured. a delight
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10/25/2013 - Vinnut Likes this wine: 92 Points
Medium garnet in color with slight clearing at the edges. Forward & attractive nose redolent of ripe red fruits aromas of cherries, berries & plums with lovely secondary floral notes of roses & sweet freesia, cocoa, earthy, white truffles, some spices and a hint of vanilla in the background. Medium bodied with a very good concentration of well balanced & developed, velvety smooth ripe red fruit flavors of tart cherries, sweet berries & plums, with tertiary notes of earthy, mushrooms, Asian spices and just a touch of vanilla. Silky smooth lingering finish. Definitely at its peak of development and may hold for a few more years if cellared properly.
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11/25/2012 - kanjimoti wrote: 82 Points
The robe shows just a hint of oxidation at the edge, perhaps a sign this is mature. On the contrary, the nose blasts candied fruit and little else. There's no sign of earth or minerality, nor anything tertiary here. If you're into fruit bombs drink up. Open two hours this had not evolved at all, still very fruit forward and one dimensional. There's great balance here between fruit and alcohol, he says sarcastically. This would not do on Thanksgiving day for the guests. Out came the 05 Lequin-Colin Chassagne vieilles vignes rouge which was excellent, and down the drain went the second half of the Talley.
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5/20/2012 - norsktorsk wrote: 92 Points
Very nice and holding up well.
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11/13/2011 - WineShark wrote: 92 Points
Was not expecting this wine to this good, and now I'm sorry I only purchased one bottle. Bursting cherry flavor with very nice acidity. Will not disappoint.
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8/8/2011 - norsktorsk wrote: 89 Points
This wine had a nice color with a full mid palate however there was a sense of plum which I did not find appealing.
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3/12/2011 - jbaron wrote: 93 Points
Looking back at my notes for this wine, it just goes to show you that once a 93, always a 93. It's been 4 years since bottle #1, and this one is still very much alive, with all of the pieces and not enough age. A nice, briary nose woth dark red pitted (and other) fruit, A large, round mouth that's just coming round into middle age. The length seems short for the rest of the package (drink now rather than later?) but is nively defined with more abstract notes than concrete ones. Perhaps the abstract length counts as a real length? (I'm not kidding on this one...)
I'd say wait until 2013 for the rest of the bottles. See what's up.
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2/12/2011 - jbaron wrote: 93 Points
Still one of my favorite Rincon pinots. This one was a tiny bit muddy, but quite tasty and quite in the moment. I think - personally - that it'd benefit from another few years, at which point it would be something truly ethereal.
Save the last bottles until 2014.
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8/27/2010 - jbaron wrote: 92 Points
Tangy - a bit on the tangy side of tangy. Good mouth, a tiny bit tangy, but otherwise well balanaced. Length is good, nose is almost good. Seems to have lost a bt of its outright extravagence - not clear whether or not that's a good outcome.
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6/17/2010 - LikeABC wrote: 93 Points
shared this with others after the Talley tasting at old doc's (the 07 Stone Corral was my favorite red or white by far).
no formal notes taken at the time, but my memory says: cork was absolutely perfect. Deep red color, slightly cloudy, and no bricking. Nose took about 10 minutes to emerge. Hypnotic nose of red fruit, brambly spice and wild flowers. This wine manages to ballance the big fruit with enough acidity to keep it from becoming a fruit bomb (it was a ripe vintage, but Rincon has enough natural acidity... and the only use about 1/3rd new oak).
Just starting to hit it's peak right now, and will probably stay there for a few years. Excellent!
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12/31/2009 - jbaron wrote: 93 Points
Suave, sexy, full in the mouth. Brambly Rincon nose, still-intense mouth of many different red berries. The length (the least strong facet) is a bit strident and a bit short compared to the rest of the wine. Still an outstanding bottle.
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12/4/2009 - Jack wrote: 92 Points
Excellent again tonight. These are drinking well now but no hurry.
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10/2/2009 - jbaron wrote: 93 Points
Very nice deep, dark nose that is still amazingly sharp. Sauve in the mouth, with ripe red/black cherries and a good amount of dark grass. Persistent length of... of... of very nice wine. Still quite rich, but shows a bright future - if it lasts that long.
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8/31/2009 - jbaron wrote: 93 Points
Here we are in 2009, and this wine has changed considerably since the first bottle two years ago. Be warned - it still takes 30 minutes to open and come to be one with itself - but the wine has changed from "heavy to heavy/light" to moderate, with a spectacular mouth feel. The nose is the lightest part - and I'd say bordering on marginal - but the mouth is silky and full without being overbearing, and the length is on it's way to etheral. Still primarily fruity, with some briarpatch as appeared in last night's Rosemary's, but this one is the complete package now, with lots of stuffing, and should stay as such for quite some time.
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8/1/2009 - Jack wrote: 93 Points
Opened two bottles and they were good from the start. If I remember correctly this had a pretty hard edge when it was released but it is now silky smooth and wonderful.
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5/17/2008 - Jack wrote: 92 Points
Really nice rich and very ripe fruit. Needs a little time to meld together and should improve with some bottle age. The 03 Dehl. was better tonight but not by much.
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1/5/2008 - fisk15 wrote: 92 Points
Opened with a great rose petal nose with earth and red fruits. Big pinot, for sure but more balanced than many 04 pinots. Very nice.
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11/25/2007 - jbaron wrote: 92 Points
Takes about 45 minutes to open up, and the wine goes from viscous and indeterminate and heavy to something that's lighter and cleaner and more pronounced in what it has to say. The nose is light and airy and light-red colored and the length is long and very well defined - earth and mushrooms and light red fruit. Very nice. The mouth is full and a bit angular, with intense red fruit (canned cherries and cranberries, mainly) with some pepper and some dirt. A nice effort.
Try next in 2009.
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11/18/2007 - silton wrote: 90 Points
Young and delicious. An hour+ of air was required before this opened up; at first, it tasted overwrought and compacted, but it gained its footing soon enough. Nice combination of ripe, rich fruit framed by acids and manageable tannin. An impulsive opening that performed well, but should continue to improve.
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