2013 Pyramid Valley Pinot Noir Earth Smoke

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 93 points

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  8/28/2023 - fredb Likes this wine:

  Pale strawberry color with some murkiness and moderate transparency at the rim. Aromas are strawberry, cherry, some herbal notes, and a bit of pepper. Palate has cranberry, tart cherry, black cherry, and some rust that carry into a medium finish. Darker fruited than the Angel Flower tried two days prior. Both ready to drink. Drink.

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  2/16/2020 - Madera16 Likes this wine:

  Yum, such an interesting balance between pure ripe new world fruit and old world bass note and restraint. Tasted next to the Angel Flower, this one has a bit more tannin. The problem with both, compared to burgundies on the same night, is that they lack force on the palate. Rich thought it was almost like they’re young vines and need another 20 years. Either way very pretty wine.

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  3/26/2019 - LindsayM Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Popped and poured 16% new oak , destemed
  
  Colour Med to light density , brown haze on the edge ,against the light pale ruby , clear edges translucent, I read somewhere - A pomegranate colour, somewhere between its seed and skin. which pretty sums it up 15/15
  Nose Med- intensity wild red fruit aromas – wild strawberry , plum, blueberry, cherry dried herbs , leaves, flowers, forest floor , vanilla, with exotic spices and a strange vegetive aromas like stewed rhubarb . I’m sure this will develop with aeration 28/30
  Palate med bodied , juicy flavours of intense spice and fruit flavours , long silky finish , great acids / tannin balance , everything just so 42/44
  Overall a fantastic nose that keeps changing with aeration , this is the wines best feature , palate not in the same league , just a little one dimensional at this stage , I like it. , as mentioned .in other comments ,overpriced 9/11

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  4/29/2016 - Milliontown wrote: 92 Points

  Really good. Cloudy bright red juice, vaguely whole-bunchy and herbaceous on the nose but it's a nice balance with lots of vibrant lifted floral notes and bright red fruit. The palate is expansive and delicate with red cherry and grapefruit bitterness. There's a little bit of astringency sticking out on the medium length finish, but that might resolve with time.
  
  All that said, I feel this is quite overpriced.
  
  Wish I knew more about the technical info of this wine to actually make that statement more confidently, but the pyramid valley website is so full of pretentious hippy bullshit about their philosophy etc... I don't care, just want to know how the wine was made, what's in the soil, how much whole bunch, how much new oak, ph, TA... you know, the kind of thing that one goes on to a winery's website to find out.

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  4/21/2016 - antkorbel Likes this wine: 94 Points

  The colour of the wine is amazing, like crushed rasberries – so primary. Swirl and sniff brings out cool, fresh scents, alpine forest floor. To taste its quite light bodied, very different to the fruit packed beasts from Otago, but I really love that contrast. Excellent wine, and but for lacking some oomph could be higher.

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