This Pinot Noir was delicious. Another great product from the female pioneer of winemaking in the USA. Age has tamed this wine very well. Nice balance and the fruits remain vibrant and well integrated with the earth flavors leading to a a nice medium finish. This wine has many more years ahead of it if cellared properly.
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Gave it a 30 minute decant before pouring that first glass of dark-purple goodness! Certainly a little heavier as Merry Edwards often are but still very easy to drink! Incredibly smooth with wonderful dark fruit and licorice. Didn’t detect any “earthiness” - just silky smooth wine. Sad to be done with this vintage but it made for a great meal!
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Opened and decanted for 30-min ahead of hearty chicken noodle soup. Dark, purple-violet color. The nose is hot (alcohol) and brings cherry blossoms, licorice, black tea, and crème de cassis. The palate is medium-full, square, concentrated and sharp, bringing a solid core of blueberry-rhubarb pie, dark cherries, wood smoke, plums, baking spices, and red raspberries into a hot finish. This wine is still primary. The wood and alcohol are not yet integrated, but given the pedigree I expect this will even out by 2024-2032. Technical score: 92. Enjoyment score: 91.
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The nose was dark and rich, showing exotic dark florals, moist earth, wild herbs, ripe black fruits, licorice, sweet tobacco and a whiff of vanillin oak. On the palate, I found silky textures with pure red and blue fruits guided by brisk acidity with dark inner floral tones mounting toward the finale. The finish was long with a hint of peppery spice, dried blackberry, raspberry and hints of fine tannin.
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60% new French oak. Least precision of the four Merry Edwards single-vineyard Pinots we drank today. A little muddy on the palate. Very good, but not in comparison to the others. $63.
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Merry Edwards winery visit. Appearance is clear, pale intensity, ruby colour. Legs. Nose is clean, medium+ intensity, with aromas of floral violets, sweet honey caramel, cane sugar, sweet ripe dark red cherries. Developing. On the palate, dry, high acidity, medium+ alcohol (14.2%), medium tannins, medium body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of ripe dark red cherries, sweet spices. Long finish. Very good quality. Perfumy nose and fruit forward in general. Still needs some time for the palate to flesh out more. Maybe another 1-2 more years.
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Medium nose shows blueberry, black cherry, molasses, general spice. Palate is nicely full bodied for Pinot, medium light tannins in there, blackberry, dried herbal tone, light spice. Seems a little closed at the moment, give it time.
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11/17/2023 - Harbthewineguy Likes this wine: 92 Points
This Pinot Noir was delicious. Another great product from the female pioneer of winemaking in the USA. Age has tamed this wine very well. Nice balance and the fruits remain vibrant and well integrated with the earth flavors leading to a a nice medium finish. This wine has many more years ahead of it if cellared properly.
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7/23/2022 - wthad4 Likes this wine: 95 Points
Gave it a 30 minute decant before pouring that first glass of dark-purple goodness! Certainly a little heavier as Merry Edwards often are but still very easy to drink! Incredibly smooth with wonderful dark fruit and licorice. Didn’t detect any “earthiness” - just silky smooth wine. Sad to be done with this vintage but it made for a great meal!
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5/4/2022 - jlhkiss Likes this wine: 91 Points
Opened and decanted for 30-min ahead of hearty chicken noodle soup. Dark, purple-violet color. The nose is hot (alcohol) and brings cherry blossoms, licorice, black tea, and crème de cassis. The palate is medium-full, square, concentrated and sharp, bringing a solid core of blueberry-rhubarb pie, dark cherries, wood smoke, plums, baking spices, and red raspberries into a hot finish. This wine is still primary. The wood and alcohol are not yet integrated, but given the pedigree I expect this will even out by 2024-2032. Technical score: 92. Enjoyment score: 91.
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12/21/2021 - bradhens1 wrote: 93 Points
Great wine. It’s losing its fruit and becoming quite earthy. My last of the leftover Georgeanne’s from my wedding
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11/13/2021 - MDRwinos wrote: 88 Points
Decanted for :15 minutes. Less fruit-forward than other ME Pinots. More earthy. Enjoyed, just different than the norm.
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3/16/2019 - wthad4 Likes this wine: 97 Points
Realy easy to drink Pinot. Opens up very nicely during a meal. Very smooth and fruity.
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11/24/2018 - BigBoy_Sonoma Likes this wine: 91 Points
Red fruit, cedar, cola, Smokey oak. A-
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11/21/2018 - Eric Guido Likes this wine: 92 Points
The nose was dark and rich, showing exotic dark florals, moist earth, wild herbs, ripe black fruits, licorice, sweet tobacco and a whiff of vanillin oak. On the palate, I found silky textures with pure red and blue fruits guided by brisk acidity with dark inner floral tones mounting toward the finale. The finish was long with a hint of peppery spice, dried blackberry, raspberry and hints of fine tannin.
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11/12/2018 - MRichman wrote:
Darker, firmer with lots of grip. Dark oak, smoke, black olive, earth. Good mushroomy core. Very good. Young, needs some time.
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10/20/2018 - Benj wrote: 88 Points
60% new French oak. Least precision of the four Merry Edwards single-vineyard Pinots we drank today. A little muddy on the palate. Very good, but not in comparison to the others. $63.
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5/22/2018 - Derek Darth Taster wrote: 91 Points
Merry Edwards winery visit.
Appearance is clear, pale intensity, ruby colour. Legs.
Nose is clean, medium+ intensity, with aromas of floral violets, sweet honey caramel, cane sugar, sweet ripe dark red cherries. Developing.
On the palate, dry, high acidity, medium+ alcohol (14.2%), medium tannins, medium body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of ripe dark red cherries, sweet spices. Long finish.
Very good quality. Perfumy nose and fruit forward in general. Still needs some time for the palate to flesh out more. Maybe another 1-2 more years.
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3/22/2018 - GTFreek wrote:
Medium nose shows blueberry, black cherry, molasses, general spice. Palate is nicely full bodied for Pinot, medium light tannins in there, blackberry, dried herbal tone, light spice. Seems a little closed at the moment, give it time.
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