2012 Littorai Pinot Noir The Haven

Community Tasting Notes (38) Avg Score: 92.6 points

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  8/2/2023 - bdhanna Likes this wine: 93 Points

  I agree with my tasting note of three weeks ago !! This bottle was not quite as exciting as the last, so I rated it one tick lower !! This wine is absolutely delicious, perfectly aged, and at peak !!
  Perfect cork after over a decade in the bottle, removed easily. Consumed before dinner with friends. This balanced wine showed well immediately and only improved over the next 90 minutes. Light ruby color with no oxidation and medium clarity. Aromas of red cherry and cranberry. Flavors of fresh cherries, pomegranate, and rhubarb with a hint of baking spice and forest floor. This Pinot Noir has a medium to long finish. A balanced and flavorful Pinot Noir that may have more years of life remaining, fortunately I still have one bottle of this vintage remaining in the cellar. A great fruit sources from the Haven which is located at 1,200 feet elevation between Occidental and the Pacific. There are approximately 40 different rootstock and clonal combinations within this small four-acre vineyard. The Haven is very cool and late ripening with 12 clones on soils of Hugo-Josephine loams; the property is very heterogeneous with uplifted undersea volcanics, sandstones, shales, and serpentine-derived loams. All of these elements and great winemaking from Ted Lemmon combine to consistently produce a very fine Pinot Noir.

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  7/20/2023 - canan wrote: 94 Points

  Stunning wine and perfectly mature imho. Bright cherry fruit mixed with cranberries and pomegranate. Green herbs and a wonderful acidity in the aftertaste. Continuously developing in the glass displaying the complexity! I simply adored this wine at this stage!

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  7/12/2023 - bdhanna Likes this wine: 94 Points

  This wine is absolutely delicious, perfectly aged, and at peak !!
  Perfect cork after over a decade in the bottle, removed easily. Consumed at a Thai restaurant with friends. This balanced wine showed well immediately and only improved over the next 90 minutes. Light ruby color with no oxidation and medium clarity. Aromas of red cherry and cranberry. Flavors of fresh cherries, pomegranate, and rhubarb with a hint of baking spice and forest floor. This Pinot Noir has a medium to long finish. A balanced and flavorful Pinot Noir that may have more years of life remaining, fortunately I still have two bottles of this vintage remaining in the cellar. A great fruit sources from the Haven which is located at 1,200 feet elevation between Occidental and the Pacific. There are approximately 40 different rootstock and clonal combinations within this small four-acre vineyard. The Haven is very cool and late ripening with 12 clones on soils of Hugo-Josephine loams; the property is very heterogeneous with uplifted undersea volcanics, sandstones, shales, and serpentine-derived loams. All of these elements and great winemaking from Ted Lemmon combine to consistently produce a very fine Pinot Noir.

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  5/30/2023 - Deux Chevaux wrote:

  3.5 years after the prior: Medium dark ruby, translucence at the edges. Lovely suggestions of savory/mineral cherry. Beautifully in balance, with lovely acid backbone. This has developed very nicely, and was highly enjoyable over three nights.

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  4/9/2023 - pjhr Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Delicious red cherry, floral, and spice aromas and flavors with wonderful intensity, complexity and balance culminating with refreshing acidity and tannins on the long finish. Drinking beautifully!

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