2011 Calera Pinot Noir de Villiers Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (29) Avg Score: 89.9 points

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  5/6/2022 - Deux Chevaux wrote:

  Dark and rather dense. Earthy, showing a an unwelcome (for us) characteristic of coffee that we find rather typical from this house. Nice enough for two nights — and then the last half of the bottle jumped into a sauce.

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  3/23/2022 - bilgepump100 wrote: 91 Points

  Nice pomegranate notes. Still drinking well.

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  12/22/2021 - canan wrote: 92 Points

  Lovely elegant and refreshing strawberry/raspberry fruit but with a solid intensity. It surprised me a bit having improved a lot over the last years. It is certainly a well-made wine with lots of depth while maintaining a lovely elegance. For me, this wine indicates that they 2011's from Calera is ready to drink now and is at a good drinking age where it has a good balance between elegant fruit and intensity.

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  12/6/2021 - KVM wrote:

  2011 Ryan: Medium + colour. Fresh fruit, a little barrel creaminess.. medium body, excellent concentration. Firm and one for the Ages. Elegant.
  2011 de Villiers: Dark Wild fruit and blood in the nose. Rich, so concentrated with red and blue fruit...powerful and showing its 1 ton per acre yield.

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  5/22/2021 - MichielV wrote: 90 Points

  W superb grilled chicken, spicy sweet potatoes and some great apple, fennel blue cheese salad. Great meal overall. Maybe the wine was a bot overwhelmed by this great spicy food but overall acceptable combination. Drink up.

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