2004 Sine Qua Non Pinot Noir Covert Fingers
Pinot Noir
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By Stephen Tanzer
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July/August 2005, IWC Issue #121, (See more on Vinous...)
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By Richard Jennings
(Sine Qua Non Pinot Noir Covert Fingers) Dark red violet color; ripe cherry, brown sugar nose; big, dense, ripe cherry, tart cherry, berry palate with a tingly sense of secondary fermentation; medium-plus finish
10/3/2009, (See more on RJonWine.com...) 88 points -
By Richard Jennings
(Sine Qua Non Pinot Noir Covert Fingers) So last night, amidst a lot of amazing wines at a friend's celebration of the pending marriage of his lovely daughter, another SQN Covert Fingers was poured. It was badly corked. Eventually, someone did the saran wrap bit in a decanter, which took out the TCA nose, and the wine we then tasted was a slightly weaker version of the bottle I had Thursday at Vin Vino. No one thought it tasted anything like Pinot. There was general consensus that it was more like an overripe Grenache-based wine than anything else.
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By Richard Jennings
(Sine Qua Non Pinot Noir Covert Fingers) Red violet color; berry and brambley plum on nose; big, black fruit, fig, tar, Syrah palate, and hot toward long finish (undiscernable as Pinot, and just okay as Syrah)
7/19/2007, (See more on RJonWine.com...) 87 points -
By Richard Jennings
(Sine Qua Non Pinot Noir Covert Fingers) Big cherry, caramel and VA nose; concentrated black cherry, cola, with integrated caramel oak; long finish 93+ pts. (good, but not as good, IMHO, as the Oregon Pinots Manfred Krankl made in the early years of SQN)
3/28/2007, (See more on RJonWine.com...) 93 points
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Wine Definition
- Vintage2004
- TypeRed
- ProducerSine Qua Non
- VarietyPinot Noir
- DesignationCovert Fingers
- Vineyardn/a
- CountryUSA
- RegionCalifornia
- SubRegionn/a
- AppellationCalifornia
- Display optionsDefault
- UPC/EAN Code1000000000163
6/21/2020 - jmcelroy wrote: flawed
Corked!
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11/2/2019 - DrZett wrote: 93 Points
This one slaps you in the face. Amazing deep structure and complexity. Lots of dark red fruits, some oaky vanilla notes and a huge and long finish. Just had a glass of it to try - an amazing Pinot Noir which is not that easy to identify as a Pinot Noir. Can easily age another decade - drink up until 2029.
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7/27/2019 - rsrolland Likes this wine: 100 Points
Wow, Boom, Pow! It felt like a Batman episode. You remember the old school Batman and Robin fights! No way is that Pinot Noir. Covert Fingers created a Wow, Boom, Pow on my pallet. The upfront bold Krankl taste couldn’t be missed. Full body and dark fruit tastes are two adjectives that dominated. This wine is absolutely the first cousin to SQN Syrah/Grenache wines. The long heavy bottle told me so much about this Pinot. No way could this juice have been served in a plump, elegant Pinot style bottle. In fact, my wife commented and felt Zinfandel characteristics. She was spot on! SQN CF was still drinkable and held up nicely considering it was made in 2004. How can you not give this wine 100 points! Totally Krankl and stay away from this if your looking for a traditional Pinot Noir. Full Body, Dark Fruity, Strong, Zinfandelish, Jammy and Uniquely Spicy were the 6 characters of this episode!
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6/30/2019 - Stefanos T. Likes this wine: 95 Points
Full bodied and unctuous. If you've tasted other SQN wines it has the signature lifted aromas. Difficult to impossible to impossible to identify it as Pinot Noir, as opposed to SQN Pinots from Oregon. Similar to a top-notch Chateauneuf du Pape. I haven't had one wine from SQN which was not remarkable... Maybe it would have been even better younger.
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7/28/2018 - RAD2626 wrote: 96 Points
For a fourteen year old Pinot just incredible. Dark, pronounced fruit, great length. Spectacular still. Marvelous bottle of wine.
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