2016 Pyramid Valley Pinot Noir Earth Smoke

Community Tasting Notes (10) Avg Score: 92.4 points

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  8/21/2022 - Es7e2003 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Light ruby in glass. Rhubarb, barnyard, wet wool, sweat and cloves. Medium plus intensity on the nose. Medium acidity and medium minus tannins. Very complex and quite developed.

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  6/24/2022 - jmoon Does not like this wine: 88 Points

  Not sure whats happening here, but it was so sweet it was pretty much undrinkable with food, and lacked both structure and complexity, yet it was under screw cap so not faulty. Love their chardonnays though!

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  12/28/2021 - HowardNZ Likes this wine:

  2019 Visit to North Canterbury, NZ: This site on an expansive, east-facing slope with - what were described as - "strong, beautifully structured soils" of 30% clay and around 15% active limestone. From a site at around 300 metres above sea level. No whole bunch. The warmest vineyard in the Home Vineyards, seeing the morning sun. A maximum of about 10% new oak only. Deeper, darker coloured. A more brooding, structured, darker fruited, mineral bouquet with some bonfire smoke. In the mouth, largely black berries and cherries, dry earth, dry underbrush and smoky barbequed meats. Powerful but intense with bright acidity. My preferred of the two pinots.

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  9/18/2021 - Chair Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Distinctive, reflecting a unique terroir. Low-intervention taste profile, a bit cloudy. Very good.

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  4/11/2021 - wineappellation Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Some funkiness, some wholebunch characters. Juicy and rich, wildly aromatic. Crushed flowers, hawthorn, intense red currant and blackcherry mingling with farmyard, florest flowers and deep minerality.
  
  This is so delicious that you end up finishing the whole bottle - always the case with Earth Smoke amd Angel Flowers.

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