2011 Epoch Estate Wines Ingenuity

Community Tasting Notes (49) Avg Score: 92.3 points

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  11/30/2023 - junetoaugust wrote: 92 Points

  2011 Red Blend: Epoch Estate Blend: 54% Paderewski & 46% Catapult Vineyards, Paso Robles: 38% Syrah, 24% Grenache, 21% Mourvèdre, 10% Tempranillo & 7% Counoise: 1,230 Cases: While all my wine equipment is packed away was a perfect time to have a cork disintegrate during opening. Plastic fork filtering and a bit of patience gave way to a love aged ruby with brown hues. On the nose wine was past a fruit phase some notes of dark red fruits, but aromas focused on plum, licorice, earthy & rustic notes. Despite the age wine was in good balance still enough acidity, but we found we enjoyed it more without our meal. On the palate some additional muted red fruit notes and additional spice to compliment the earthy licorice tones on the nose. Wine is probably just past absolute peak drinking, but a fun wine nonetheless. If you have any of these, I wouldn’t wait.
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  Wine Making: Fermented in concrete and stainless-steel tan, puncheons and one-ton bins, Aged 17 months in 47% new French oak.

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  5/19/2023 - buckeye76 Likes this wine: 94 Points

  The fourth bottle we've opened over the last ten years and still wonderful, and a perfect pairing with multiple foods. Black raspberries, plums, black cherries, chocolate, licorice. earthiness, and some spice in the nose. Flavor like the nose with black raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, and licorice. Medium to full bodied wine, very well balanced, nice complexity, and a long velvety finish. 94-95

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  6/25/2022 - markcic Likes this wine: 92 Points

  This was better than the bottle that I tried in the beginning of May.
  Again, I opened, fought with a broken cork and then poured through a vintorio. Dark fruit on the nose. The palate was dark berries with a hint of raspberry and touch of orange leading to a moderately long finish. Served with simply grilled steaks on a really nice NJ evening.

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  5/3/2022 - markcic Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Opened, fought with a broken cork and then poured through a vintorio. Dark fruit on the nose. The palate was dark berries with a hint of raspberry and touch of orange leading to a moderately long finish. Served with a simple dish of roasted chicken and butternut squash.

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  4/1/2020 - fournet wrote: 93 Points

  Continues to improve with time. Ready to drink now but also no rush to open this one.

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