2014 Evesham Wood Pinot Noir Temperance Hill

Community Tasting Notes (13) Avg Score: 92.7 points

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View rmh66's profile
  • Report Issue

  2/3/2024 - rmh66 wrote: 94 Points

  PnP and followed for a few hours. Improved over an hour. Focused red cherry, plum, dusty earth, clay, smoke, herbs, a little graphite, and minerals on the nose. Soo earthy. Tart cherries, red cherries, tart plum, herbs, earth, and minerals on the palate. Mouthwatering acidity, fine tannins, long earthy finish. Wow, so delicious. The description doesn't show it, but this bottle has so much flavor and earthiness -- I couldn't put it down. 94-95

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View Brian Glas's profile
  • Report Issue

  5/30/2022 - Brian Glas Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Tasted after 90 minutes of air. Crunch raspberry fruit. Medium garnet color with some bricking. Even after 8 years this wine is in need of some air to open and show its stuff. Too often I think these older wines don't need as much air as newer wines. Not true. This wine was dead for the first 30 minutes and is only now starting to come around after 90 minutes. Was reading Marcus Goodfellow's posts on Wine Berserkers and he was saying the same thing. Light floral on the nose. Firm acidity. Nice lift. Medium plus finish.

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View scorbett's profile
  • Report Issue

  5/24/2022 - scorbett Likes this wine:

  Maybe I had a bad last bottle (or was in a different headspace) because this one is WAY better.
  
  Nose: dirt/dust, dried mushrooms, hint of a green note like fresh asparagus (none of this is really sous bois but more like aged / dried version).
  
  Palate: clean cherry/strawberry, dark chocolate, more earthiness.

  1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View scorbett's profile
  • Report Issue

  3/22/2022 - scorbett wrote:

  Very muted; maybe in a sleep phase. Even finished a bit hot.
  
  Compared to a Illhae vineyard bottle from the same vintage, it massively underperformed.
  
  So hold if you have them.

  1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (1)

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View Laz4wine's profile
  • Report Issue

  2/13/2022 - Laz4wine Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Similar TN to recent posts, just slightly flat and a bit short w/o food, but fared better on Day 2. Silky and RTD now, wouldn't expect it to improve much out to 2028.

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

View all 13 Community Tasting Notes

Professional reviews have copyrights and you can view them here for your personal use only as private content. To view pro reviews you must either subscribe to a pre-integrated publication or manually enter reviews below. Learn more.