2015 Acacia Pinot Noir A By Acacia

Community Tasting Notes (10) Median Score: 85 points

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  5/12/2021 - Glenn Gilbert Likes this wine: 86 Points

  My first tasting of this wine & vintage for CellarTracker was just over two months ago (3/7/21); at the time I gave it an 83 rating but still didn't like it; this time it was tasted at about 8 degrees C (rather than the 25 degrees C --room temperature-- of the first tasting); the 43 mm cork still has the hay aroma and has a considerably longer max wine penetration -- 14 mm (versus 3 mm the first time); the lower temperature tasting enhances the fruit component in both the nose and the tasting itself, there are now definite notes of citrus, sweet/sour cherries; with its longer finish, the wine could be paired with fatty cold-water fish like salmon or Chilean sea bass (my favorite method is grilling outdoors on pecan wood boards); as long as it is served cold, it is a decent wine well suited to food pairing; I've changed my original rating from 83 to 86 and have changed 'don't like' to 'like'

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  3/7/2021 - Glenn Gilbert Does not like this wine: 83 Points

  13.5% alcohol; embossed, composite cork with max 3 mm wine penetration, thin paper metallic foil; medium to long legs, reddish/brown; cork has a hay aroma, the wine itself has a nose of dry grass and stone fruit, also apple peel, minerals & earth; the wine was opened, vinturied, and tasted about 30 minutes later at room temperature (25 degrees C); medium to full bodied; again, the dry grass/hay impression comes through first, followed by some sweetness in the mid tongue area embedded in sourness & tannins -- the sweetness being more like honeysuckle nectar rather than bee honey; in the short finish there is some undercurrent of wet cotton and an indescribable vegetable/fruit, a kind of organic filler; the end effect is that the whole just doesn't fit well together; at best, I could imagine pairing it with pasta

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  4/11/2019 - Stampeder Does not like this wine: 84 Points

  Absolutely nothing inspiring about this wine, even at its low price point. It’s not even worth giving a proper review.

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  1/25/2019 - Novium Does not like this wine: 60 Points

  Completely flat. Ended up adding a couple drops of vinegar to it to brighten it up. Still terrible after that, but at least it had more structure.
  
  I would be curious to know the residual sugar, because it almost tasted sweet. Could have been the alcohol, though.
  
  Ended up making it into sangria. Which was better, but not by much. Blerg.

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  11/23/2018 - Oenecnist wrote:

  Notes to follow: very good on the first night, faded by the second. Notable+.

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