1999 Ken Wright Pinot Noir Shea Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (21) Avg Score: 90.6 points

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  9/28/2019 - OregonLoafer wrote:

  Bottle and cork were in great shape. This wasn’t dead but it’s definitely well past peak. Interesting to drink, plenty of acid left but all the flavors are a bit muddled. Great aged Pinot aromas, floral and leathery and dirty, similar on the palate but without enough intensity or focus, and not quite enough structure.
  
  This is my first experience with an older Ken Wright. I wasn’t sure how it would hold up. Really enjoy his wines but they’re also very delicate in my relatively limited experience - that’s part of the appeal for me but maybe they don’t all have the structure to go 20 years. That said, this is just one bottling, and I know Shea’s vines were still on the young side in 1999.
  
  Drink em if you got em, I don’t expect it’ll get better.

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  5/31/2015 - blabbott wrote: 89 Points

  This wine started out barely drinkable. After being decanted for an hour it had improved to being decent but not much above that. We had friends over so drank another bottle after tasting this. After another hour in the decanter we moved back to the KW and all the red fruit and spice emerged turning this into a really good tasting bottle. Some of our group wanted to score this at 90-91.

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  4/24/2011 - oldgrowth45 wrote:

  Consumed over two nights. Definite bricking. Big, big nose still showing lots of fruit, as well as blood orange, leather and licorice. As it opens, there's almost a Nebbiolo tar and roses thing on the nose here, interesting. Noticable oak on the initial palate, vanillin. The mid palate is very broad, not terribly complex, but broad. Ripe fruit, filling, plush. However, there's a counterbalancing acidic spine that helps subdue the plushness of the fruit. The finish is showing some age as it becomes attenuated towards the end. Was a better stand alone bottle than paired with food (one of those sit and ponder bottles).

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  9/3/2010 - oldgrowth45 wrote: 91 Points

  Popped and poured. Good rich color, with faint bricking showing on the rim. The nose is strong cinnamon and fresh fruit with some fun funk on the edges. The initial palate is clean: good fruit. A nice transition to fine tannins and some fresh acidity. The finish is long, with decent complexity. Nice bottle, it certainly isn't getting any better, so drink up if you have it.

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  3/15/2010 - kennyg wrote: 93 Points

  Going strong at year 11. Medium red, nice pinot funk on nose. Residual fruit in good balance with subtle trannins. Nice acidity and smooth moderately long finish. Not quite as delightful as a recent 1998 Shea, suggesting this one may go for even a few more years before hitting, peak. Amazing durability of these Wright pinots. Dead by day 2 (altough the friend I was staying with did not havef a vacuum sealer)

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