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2021 Abundancia Pinot Noir Estate Wine
4/5/2024 - Jack Cranley Does not like this wine: 70 Points
Tasted through the lineup of this new labels offerings. I'm not here to slander anyone but I did not find any of their wines enjoyable. I don't know, maybe others might find something to like but for me they all had this strange thread running through each and every bottle - whites and reds alike. It's hard to describe exactly what it was but it tasted like a flaw. It was like a nuttiness but not an enjoyable nuttiness. More of a bitter, rancid nuttiness.
I did notice that all of their corks were absolutely mangled and saturated with wine even though they were less than 3 years old. So I have a sneaking suspicion that the reason it was something I tasted across all of the wines was because it's coming from their corks.
But the winemaking was also lacking. Nice color but the structure was really wonky and disjointed with really harsh bitter tannins and super angular acid.
The label is also playing with Tempranillo in the Willamette Valley. I'm not going to leave reviews for those wines because I don't want to Gish Gallup a bunch of brutal scores for an upstart wine label but suffice it to say, the quality level was not to be found in those wines either. Hopefully these guys regroup and find their way a little bit.
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2020 Abundancia Pinot Noir Estate Wine
4/5/2024 - Jack Cranley Does not like this wine: 60 Points
Another casualty of the 2020 Willamette Valley vintage, that quite frankly, should have never even been bottled. Utterly destroyed by smoke taint. Undrinkable.
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2010 Rasa Vineyards In Order to Form a More Perfect Union
4/4/2024 - Jack Cranley Likes this wine: 96 Points
Wow - What a difference a few years makes. Looking back at my note from 2020, it's hard to understand why I only gave it 90 points. There was nothing in my notes that really spoke of any deficiencies in the wine, but for whatever reason I decided to leave the numeric score at 90. Today, that seems almost comically conservative. This wine is singing in a way that I was almost not sure Washington was capable of. It's peeling off in layers like a first growth Bordeaux. It's got fruit, it's got leather, it's got flowers and minerals, and herbs, and wood, and spice.... It's all over the place! The word that we really settle down as sort of the theme of this wine is "Shapeshifter". It seems to evolve and present something different with each progressive visit back to the glass. I never-ending cornucopia of nuance and complexity.
To be fair, this was the fourth bottle in a series of drinking with friends so I might be a little inebriated. But let me tell you this - I've had 30-year-old first growth Bordeaux. I know the glory that they reveal in their multi-layered capacity. This wine reminds me of that. I'm not saying it's as good or better or should be compared or whatever I'm just saying that it reminds me of that type of wine drinking. Which is pretty profound for a new world red blend. I'm impressed.
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