2010 St. Innocent Pinot Noir Momtazi Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (45) Avg Score: 89.1 points

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  2/26/2022 - DougLee wrote: 91 Points

  Found this in the cellar (no CT record of it). Popped and poured. Darker ruby. Nose of damp cellar, plum pits, violets, earth. Tart and sweet initially on the palate with later notes of contrasting dark raspberry and strawberry cut with iodine and stony iron. Brisk acidity and firm tannin. Longer finish of crunchy red fruit and grounding savory notes. Brimming with life, with lot of years of evolution in store.

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  8/11/2021 - Burgundy Al wrote: 89 Points

  Popped-and-poured. Bright red cherry and strawberry aromas with slight perfumed notes. Similar flavors, just slightly less forthcoming with medium+ concentration. More earth and leather emerged once open 2+ hours, this also seemed to put on more weight. Good now through 2030.

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  12/1/2020 - JCGuthrie wrote: 92 Points

  Agree with RocknRoller's 3/13/19 note, and not much to add. This bottle was very fresh and tasted young relative to other older SIs I've had - I suspect pristine storage. Definitely on the spicier side of pinot. Very good, and maybe I'm being stingy on the score - it had tough competition against an '08 Cameron Clos Electrique.

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  12/28/2019 - rocknroller wrote: 92 Points

  Medium dark red color. PNP, drank 2 glasses over 3 hours. Deep aromas of raspberry and strawberry, bold ground tobacco and tobacco leaf, sauvage, more damp earthiness. The palate is medium full bodied, dark berries, cigar ash, tobacco leaf, sous bois, good acidity, tart fruits. Again, this is one of my favorite Momtazis. Adore the 2010 vintage across the board from St I. The Temperance Hill a couple weeks ago was mind blowing.

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  10/6/2019 - UpfromtheCellar wrote: 88 Points

  From a Jeroboam (only 1 of three produced).
  
  Floral nose but much tighter on the palate than I was expecting. Thin mid palate. Opened and decanted for an hour before. Much more Burgundian than new world.

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