2012 Melville Pinot Noir High Density

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 94.3 points

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  12/26/2022 - thh18731 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  This is still a great wine after 10 years.

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  11/18/2015 - Christoffer78 Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Powerful and massive, yet elegant and refined. I love when I am able to use these types of contradictions in a tasting note. But do not be mistaken, the 2012 High Density Pinot is no contradiction but rather a wine that takes me from clarity to clarity. The first impression is a wonderful nose full of dark red fruit, dried flowers, orange zest, cardamom, cinnamon, earthiness, wet saddle leather and a wonderful general complexity. The palate adds to this positive impression with balance and integration. This is a powerful wine, but the fruit is cool with no heat at all, acidity balanced and perfectly composed as are the tannins lingering on in the back end palate. With a length on the finish lasting up to a minute or more as well as a mouth coating sensation, this is brutally good wine. Perhaps it is not the Pinot one expects but it certainly represents the house style in a marvelous way. It will cellar well for many many years. (score is 95+)

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