2009 Brick House Pinot Noir Les Dijonnais Ribbon Ridge

Community Tasting Notes (28) Avg Score: 91.3 points

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  11/10/2022 - beef1020 Likes this wine:

  Small amount of fine sediment, cork came out cleanly and soaked 1/3 it's length. Small initial pour had reticent nose and dominant fruit profile. Poured back into the bottle, corked, and second glass poured an hour later. Nose is now singing, palate is beautifully balanced between acidity, fruit, and tannin. Wine is just in a wonderful place, but with plenty of acidity left that it's not in danger of falling off. Drink now allowing an hour to bloom, or hold longer.

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  8/17/2019 - KeithAkers wrote: 89 Points

  Brickhouse Study (chicago, IL): Nose: The nose is forward and favors the darker spectrum of red fruits with raspberries, dark red cherries, herbs, cranberries, licorice, violets, and some candied fruit tones. This is wide open but it lacks some depth and expression.
  
  Taste: The feel is Medium/full bodied with medium acidity and medium tannins. The structure is fairly resolved with the lack of depth from the nose following through on the palate. The forwardness of the nose also carries through with dark red cherries, raspberries, cranberries, candy notes, licorice, and some herbs.
  
  Overall: This is feels like it's at its peak. It's a little clunky and foursquare with a darker fruited take to it.

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  8/17/2019 - Nanda wrote: 91 Points

  Brick House Survey (1995-2015): Very similar aromatically to the '08 with a riper, denser palate profile. Good but just a tad heavy in the context of the line-up.

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  8/17/2019 - acyso wrote: 90 Points

  Brick House survey (Chicago, IL): This is fairly similar to the 2008, with plenty of red fruit and beautiful acids, but I think what stuck out here was a spot of candied sweetness. It's still a very nice wine, but it doesn't have the same sort of balance and sensibility that the 2008 had.

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  7/14/2019 - Doctor Koulodare Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Cran-raspberry and spice nose, intense red fruit and herb on the palate, elegant.

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