2015 St. Innocent Pinot Noir Temperance Hill Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (28) Avg Score: 91.4 points

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  7/4/2023 - D_RICH wrote: 93 Points

  No contemporaneous notes. Double decant, back into bottle, served about 2-3 hours later. My 5th (of 5) and best bottle of this wine, purchased after tasting it with winemaker Mark V. in 2019. Oak and earth on the nose, wonderful balance and flavor profile on the palate - I can still taste it the next day as I write this note. (93-94).

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  4/25/2023 - Brian Glas Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Tasted after 1 hour of air. Medium garnet color. Slight browning at the edge. Not much on the nose. Some tea on the mid palate lift. Sour stewed black cherries. Savory. Spice. Very nice.

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  6/12/2022 - D_RICH wrote: 92 Points

  Decanted, 1 1/2 plus hours of air. Translucent ruby. Opulent red berry nose, some complexity, earth. Lovely, concentrated on the palate, lots of red fruit buttressed by gentle tannin. Very food friendly, restrained. My fourth of five bottles and the best one yet Contrary to some other notes that had me concerned about the development of this wine, it is what the winemaker set out to accomplish (I tasted this and the '15 Shea with with Mark V. several years ago) - an elegant Pinot that will age well and drink well with food. This is just entering its prime drinking window. Give it air or another year, or both. (91-92+).

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  6/6/2022 - Deaddeadwine Does not like this wine:

  This wine makes me sad, frankly. It's the second of three that I purchased (the first I consumed 2 1/2 years ago, which was memorably unmoving as well). I decanted this for three hours prior to consumption, drank about 3 glasses, and consumed the remaining 2 glasses the following day.
  
  It's opaque, overly extracted and a bit hot. ('15 was a pretty hot vintage). On day one, it never did really open up -it remained aromatically muted and closed. The palate was hard and alcoholic. Day two , more complex fruit and cola aromas emerged, with a spicy oak note prevalent.
  
  The bummer is that this has zero feminine qualities, none of the pretty Pinot Noir characteristics that were so beguiling in St Innocent wines of the 90s, particularly in the O'Connor vineyard wines ( now Zenith). I'm not even certain that I'd identify this as PN if served blind.
  
  I'll wait to at least 2025 to open the last one. I'm not particularly hopeful.

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  4/27/2022 - trumpet60201 Likes this wine: 89 Points

  The bottle says 13.5%, but the wine presents as too hot for my taste, making the finish quite harsh. Nice spice and a variety of dark and red fruits on the nose and palate. It's a rich, fairly persistent wine. There is lovely, delicious and sweet fruit there, but the alcohol just gets in the way for some reason, overpowering the mid-palate and finish for me.

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