2011 Occidental Pinot Noir Cuvée Elizabeth Bodega Headlands

Community Tasting Notes (39) Avg Score: 93.6 points

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  2/22/2024 - mclanew Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Popped and poured. At first this is a little carbonic tasting. After about 30 minutes it unfolds into gorgeous red fruited pinot. Cherry, herbs and spice come through. Medium bodied, very good balance, developing complexity, elegant and smooth. Impressive to see how these can age.

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  8/27/2023 - manemis Likes this wine: 95 Points

  A wonderful wine. Dark fruit, earthy, quite full bodied Pinot, well balanced. Best new world Pinot I’ve had. Not past it’s drinking window as CT would say. Superb.

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  4/9/2023 - WoodieBayArea wrote: 89 Points

  honestly a little to big and brutish for my tastes (I like burgundy more that most Cali pinots... exceptions include Arcadian pinots and older Calera pinots)... others would like it more but I gave it 89 pts

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  12/28/2022 - hsacks Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Similar to the 5/8/21 bottle…drink up!

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  8/19/2022 - andrewdodd86 wrote: 93 Points

  Tried to open a 2010 Kistler vineyard and the cork was leaking. Then opened this and it’s mediocre. Now I’m depressed.
  
  It’s not bad, by any measure. Very tart cherry, blood orange, and tobacco forward. Clearly from a cooler year and/or site. Don’t love it.
  
  Catherine and Natalie were 100x better. This is mediocre for being Kistler/Occidental.
  
  Unusually high amount of sediment. Bottom of the barrel?!?

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