2012 Loring Wine Company Pinot Noir Russell Family Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (10) Avg Score: 91.8 points

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  6/10/2018 - Bob in NC Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Mm, mm, mmm, loving us some Loring right now, especially the Russell Family Vineyard. Big juicy cherry and cinnamon with some nice herbalness, so very balanced. The finish is incredible with the cherry fruit, cinnamon spice and hints of cedar that wrap around your tongue and refuses to let go.

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  9/15/2017 - mk42 Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Extreme black currants predominant. Softened tannins with structure with food-friendly acidity. Dark fruits including rich dark cherries, deep minerals and chalky notes make for a great wine today. Drinkable for another few years.

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  4/16/2017 - mk42 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  It's all about dark acidic fruit, blackberries and black currants. Highly structured with nice minerals. Full, robust with opulence.

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  6/7/2016 - RGCM Gananda wrote: 92 Points

  Black raspberry, floral and spices notes on the nose. Medium bodied and has began to lose some of the more intensely fruit-forward qualities that I noted in my prior bottle (Aug 2015). Nice mix of black raspberry and black cherry with pleasant balancing notes of earth and spices on the finish. Good amount of structuring tannins on the finish; not astringent, but noticeable. This wine seems to be in an intermediate stage. It has lost the lush, overt fruit of a young Loring pinot but hasn't reached the more expressive later life stage. If you enjoy the fruit forward style, I would drink this sooner. If you're looking for the added complexities, I would wait another year or so. Based on how the 2010s turned out, this one should show quite well on a similar timeframe.

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  8/7/2015 - RGCM Gananda Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Floral, blackfruit and spice on the nose. Very rich, almost lush black raspberry upfront backed with a melted black licorice quality as well as earth and minerals on the finish. This isn't overdone, but it is fruit, fruit and more fruit forward fruit. Not a style that will appeal to all, but it never crossed into syrah territory to me. I think this wine will be best when young as the rich fruit is the wine's strongpoint, but I may hold my last bottle for a few years to see what happens with a bit of age.

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