2012 Ransom Pinot Noir Selection

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 89.2 points

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  2/10/2016 - cuffthis Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Consistent with previous bottle. Vibrant garnet in color, this wine reveals focused aromas of black cherry, mushrooms and white flowers on the nose. The mouth feel is more fuller bodied than expected with the 12.6% abv and showed more red fruits as well as Asian spices. The finish was pleasant with copious levels of acidity that framed the red fruits and spice components.
  
  Purchased for $25US, this is a delicious, complex offering. It drinks much more fuller than the 12.6% abv listed on the label might expect.

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  12/26/2015 - cuffthis Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Vibrant garnet in color, this wine reveals focused aromas of black cherry, mushrooms and white flowers on the nose. The mouth feel is more fuller bodied than expected with the 12.6% abv and showed more red fruits as well as Asian spices. The finish was pleasant with copious levels of acidity that framed the red fruits and spice components.
  
  Purchased for $25US, this was a surprise hit with friends over dinner. It drinks much more fuller than the 12.6% abv listed on the label might expect.

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  11/22/2015 - isaacjamesbaker wrote: 91 Points

  Sighted Willamette Valley: Bright ruby color. Aromas of tart red berries, sour cherries, cranberry sauce, some tobacco, bay leaf, rose petals. On the palate, a tart, brisk presence of acid, with lightly dusty tannins, medium-light bodied at 12.6% alcohol. Crunchy red fruit (pomegranate, red cherries and sour cherries) shows freshness and liveliness. Notes of tobacco, clay, rose petals, some bay leaf and broth elements that add an earthy but pretty sense of complexity. Such a brisk and lively wine, but some notes of light roast coffee and campfire smoke, too. A beauty of a wine now but I’d be interested in seeing how it unwraps over the next two to three years. Aged 16 months in old French oak.

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  11/12/2014 - budosyu wrote: 89 Points

  Nose of raspberries with hints of savory meat/bacon and minerals. Palate with clean red fruit flavors with mid earthiness and smoke on the mid-palate, finishing with nice acidity on an almost salty, saline finish.
  
  Nice, bright fruit flavors, nicely contrasted by the saline, mineral finish. While not the most layered or complex wine, it drinks very cleanly. Good sipper on its own or could pair well with lighter fare. Decent QPR at just under $25

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  8/1/2014 - Sturff wrote: 86 Points

  Toasty oak, very dirty, cola, burned hair. Butter, dirt, watery, cherry, taste

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