2004 Sea Smoke Pinot Noir Ten

Community Tasting Notes (125) Avg Score: 92.2 points

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  4/5/2024 - Cow Town Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Fun to drink at 20 years. Still holding up well. Everyone like it, but the folks who loved it were people who were Napa cab drinkers. Others liked it for what it was, but if anything it lacked nuance. Tasty, and great for a 20 year old SS.

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  12/31/2020 - Chris Keller wrote: 94 Points

  Ripe cherry, raspberry, rose petal and “strawberry jam” notes right off the bat or nose this wine is so floral and full of fresh flowers that it is like walking into a florist ... This continues on the palate and becomes cranberry sauce and dusty minerality on the palate cola and earth notes on the finish of buttery yet dry oak. Spectacular will age for 4 or five more years . Drinking spectacularly now!!!

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  6/11/2019 - Charlie C Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Intense red in color with just a bit of bricking. Vibrant strawberry and rhubarb notes on the nose. Strawberry and spice on the palate, bit of rhubarb. Polished, fine tannins, great acidity and balance. Long, lingering finish of intense red fruits and black pepper. 14.9% ABV which starts to show a bit in the finish. I'd drink these over the next two years.

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  6/2/2019 - johnmerb Likes this wine: 92 Points

  For most of its life this was really well cellared at a friend's house but he made me reclaim it last year because he was moving and I have no good storage, so I opened it tonight since i suspected its days are numbered, with me at least. I’d say that’s correct for this old soldier and it’s time to drink this one while it still has something to give. I had some immediate concern because the cork was crumbly and came out in pieces. The wine is deep and dark, nearly black even against a light but for the garnet flashing along the edges as it’s swirled. The nose is a pleasant perfume with vague dark fruit, maybe black plum or muddled blackberries, but no other clear notes in the vapor. On first sip there’s the dark fruit again, massive and viscous though lacking brightness, but now some small prune that extends into the mid palate and finish betraying its age and likely the recent storage neglect or cork deterioration. I’m not a fan of prune but it’s mild. The mid palate adds some cola. Still a sturdy structure though one senses some mild decay. The finish drops off the fruit earlier than in its prime but has a lengthy agreeable mild tannic mouthfeel that goes for quite a while that speaks to the overall quality of the bottling. Improves as it opens. Very pleasant if no longer spectacular especially for a Sea Smoke fan but is certainly now on the decline so drink up!

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  7/11/2018 - spineguy Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Still in its prime. Did not change much over an hour in the glass. Did not want to decant my pinot but perhaps would have been ok. Great all around but some lack of complexity. Will probably show better with more air time or age.

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