2016 Mount Eden Vineyards Pinot Noir Domaine Eden

Community Tasting Notes (18) Avg Score: 89.7 points

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  7/28/2023 - David J Cooper wrote: 93 Points

  Clear medium red. Incredible Earthy Pinot Noir nose. Wild red cherry, spice, herbs, and barnyard. Delicious percictent berry and cherry flavours and a long dry herbal, cherry finish.
  
  Like 09 Neely. High altitude Pinot Noir. Not Burgundy or Sonoma, but something unique.

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  1/7/2023 - Dine&Vine wrote: 88 Points

  Nothing to write home about. Just okay, hollow and fleeting soft flavors. Same on day 2.

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  12/26/2022 - LingonTuvan Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Balanced and in the window right now. Not very complex.

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  12/3/2022 - David J Cooper wrote: 91 Points

  Medium light red with a darker core. Opens with enough funkiness to think it might be corked but it wasn’t. Earthy, dried mushroom, forest floor, orange peel, plums and strawberry. The flavours are more pure and the finish is light and dry.
  
  I really liked this. Much different than other SCM wines I have had. After reading Erin Brook’s WA note I can now describe the opening funk as prosciutto.

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  11/8/2022 - Josch48 Likes this wine: 86 Points

  Translucent light cherry color extending out to brick orange at the rim. Rubber band (sulfur dioxide) off odor initially, reminiscent of mid 1980s Mondavi Reserve Napa Pinot Noir, (decant?) on the nose, which grudgingly gives way, but not completely, to scant whiffs of orange peel and powdered strawberries. We’ll move on and circle back to see if anything else emerges in the nose.
  The mouthfeel is medium light, with intact acidity and phantom tannins, initially with quickly dissipating implied desiccated red fruit and an unfortunate carry over of rubber band, culminating in flashback of pleasantly sour grape skins on the all too ensuing finish.
  Coming back as the grill heats up, the wine now has a more silky and integrated mouthfeel with an additional candied cherry flavor.
  We will postpone the final verdict and commensurate score after we have the wine with our dinner of grilled pork and seasoned vegetables.
  With food the sulfur dioxide has departed, leaving an elegantly light mouthfeel and a disappointing minimal sweet presence of anonymous red fruit in a six year old Pinot Noir. Perhaps the 1,650 foot elevation allowed a gross loss of Angel’s Share to leave the casks. In any event, one doesn’t expect the extraction of a Dehlinger Pinot Noir from this producer, but perhaps more than this well cellared specimen is now showing.
  Bottom line: I like the wine, but it is past due. Drink up now.

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