2009 Roessler Pinot Noir La Brisa

Community Tasting Notes (20) Avg Score: 89.8 points

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  4/6/2024 - The Drunken Cyclist Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Retail $35. Heavy Bottle (694g; 1lb 8.4oz). I bought four bottles of this wine for my father-in-law way back in 2013 when he lived in the Bay Area (kind of) and we lived in Philly. I purchased them from WTSO for about $20 and had them shipped to his house. Or so I thought; they ended up on our stoop in Philly. We popped a couple of the bottles while still on the East Coast and they were fine, but not much more. This bottle? Pretty fantastic: bright, fresh red fruit despite its age, lovely zing to balance the fruit, and even a touch of verve. This is really quite nice. My father-in-law lives right behind us now here in Houston. I don't think I will mention to him that we still have another bottle, I might just have to keep it for myself.
  
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  5/24/2018 - klezman wrote:

  Tasty and earthy. Good one for the last of this wine.

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  12/21/2017 - klezman wrote:

  Earthy and delicious.

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  10/17/2017 - Mossrose wrote: 93 Points

  Now a great pop and pour wine completely enjoyable poured from the just opened bottle. "La Brisa" sounds like a single vineyard wine but actually is a brand name for a blend across Sonoma Coast vineyards. Often called an elegant Pinot, but actually is a dark, dense, and concentrated Pinot Noir. Superb texture, deliciously fruity, beautifully integrated, and intensely fruity. Bought the last 3 bottles the store had, but would have rightly taken any amount more they had to sell.

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  10/20/2016 - Mossrose wrote: 93 Points

  Opaque with an inch pour. Very generous in the mouth, with a smooth texture, bright acidity, well integrated taste, and richly fruity flavors of black plum, black raspberry, and blackberry. Good concentration, quite delicious, and a long aftertaste where fruit, acid, and tannin all flow out together. Fine example of how blending across vineyards can make high quality and affordable Pinot Noirs, here from the Sonoma Coast in California. Significantly better than the bottles I opened years earlier.

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