2008 Melville Pinot Noir Estate

Community Tasting Notes (48) Avg Score: 90.0 points

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  5/1/2022 - Long Family wrote: 96 Points

  Outstanding Pinot. Still had a few years left for aging but very well balanced now Great fruit , great finish Wish we had another!

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  10/18/2020 - Defcahn5 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Great example of their style. The age has softened some of the more earthy and acidic notes in favor of smooth bright fruit. Good wine with and without food and seems like it will drink well for a while.

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  5/5/2017 - Christoffer78 Likes this wine: 94 Points

  A couple of years ago I wrote this "...certainly not a wine for the acidity-subdued fruit-craving Pinot lover. This is a hedonistic approach to Pinot with tons of fruit and a body that would make an Italian Cabernet seem shy." Well, this is perhaps still true, but another three years in the cellar certainly has done this effort a lot of justice. Everything is now more tightly wound together. Everything is in place and nothing is over the top. There is still ripe mature strawberry, red fruit and sun warm lemon curd. The palate is silky and exhibits are superb length on the finish. Acidity and any tannins are embedded in an adorable veil of fruit. Close to ten years in the cellar has really helped this wine come together and mature. It is hitting its prime drinking window right now, but my guesstimate is it will still drink nicely in five-six years too. A true gem and well worth seeking out if given the chance. (score is 94+)

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  9/3/2016 - Christoffer78 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Ripe and classy mature strawberry and red darkish fruits accompanied by sun warm blackberry jam. Might not sound like your best Pinot, but in this effort it is so "spot on", there is no better expression than just that... Without the slightest doubt a typical example of a hedonistic Melville Pinot. The palate delivers the typical and classical silkiness combined with a brilliant length on the finish. Adding to these rather extrovert and perhaps equivoke first impressions are texture and structure telling me this effort is indeed a real wine. Still it needs to be noted, acidity and any tannins are embedded in a lovely veil of fruit without any hard edges. The wine has keeps on integrating and also showing signs of maturity and age. My guesstimate is that there are many more years to go in the cellar, but why wait?

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  3/26/2016 - Christoffer78 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  First impression is that of ripe mature strawberry, red fruit and sun warm lemon curd. This is without doubt a typical example of a hedonistic Melville pinot. The palate adds the classical silkiness and a super nice length on the finish. Adding to the extrovert first impressions are texture as well as structure. Still it should be said, acidity and any tannins are embedded in a lovely veil of fruit. There are no hard edges. The wine has certainly integrated nicely since my last tasting. Still, I would love to see this wine age a year or more just to see "how far it can go". No doubt this is skilful winemaking from a very solid producer who delivers in vintage after vintage...

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