2022 Rivers-Marie Pinot Noir Sonoma Coast

Community Tasting Notes (11) Avg Score: 90.9 points

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  5/12/2024 - spectrumphoto Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Probably one of the best Value Pinots available.
  Still too young to fully enjoy... but after 4 hours if you love rich, complex bright dark fruit on the fresh side plus chocolate, cinnamon, clove, lemongrass, sweet perrers?, hint of Anise with a pretty solid medium body then you'll be loving life in the glass

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  5/11/2024 - SH Wu Likes this wine: 90 Points

  This wine is loaded with dark brooding fruits that unwind and integrate with the secondary flavors as it airs. Air smoothes out the tannic structure and shows the fresh acidic lift more prominently.
  
  Needs time to open overnight as a lot of the charming characteristics are muted on opening. This does not behaves much more like a high end pinot than a $35 bottle. I'm considering bunkering more bottles as these will likely serve great in 3-5 years.

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  4/27/2024 - Frank Murray III wrote:

  Served blind. This really wowed me, especially in light of the price on these which Sean says are still $35. Ridiculous. Riper tones, with cranberry, black raspberry, pomegranate syrup, blood orange, earth and a stony finish. Damn. I scratch my head how stuff that is represented as CA Pinot Noir, some at 2x-3x the price of this stuff, gets attention when a wine like this 2022 RM SC can show this friigging good. Bravo.

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  4/20/2024 - King Cab wrote: 90 Points

  Just received last night and figured, why not.
  I always enjoy receiving these and they are never the same wine twice. Still recall the quick opening of the 2018 that sent me blasting into the market for more and more I found, a dozen more.
  I don't think this one will have that same effect on me.
  
  I also never recall a RM Pinot being totally devoid of a nose.
  The palate show some pretty fed fruits that certainly need some time to integrate. Pomegranate, near ripe strawberry and a touch of orange peel. It's interesting for sure but I would never pin this for a SC Pinot out of a yones cantina. It has nice balance and deftly made but duh! It's a wee-bit young ya think?
  I think you'd be wise to hold for at least a year I know I will on my other 3

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  4/17/2024 - wine-eau Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Pnp. I find this simple right now. Predominantly sour cherry. Pleasant but I expect it to get better. I won’t touch the rest of mine for at least 2-3 years.

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