2017 Morlet Family Vineyards Pinot Noir Joli Coeur

Community Tasting Notes (9) Avg Score: 93.4 points

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  12/6/2022 - msuwine wrote: 89 Points

  This sweet and lifted Pinot is drinking fine right now, but it shows a confectionary and saturated profile that is one-dimensional: after five years in bottle, the wine hasn't changed much. As with Yertle, so too with much modern domestic Pinot: it's fruit all the way down. I know there are exceptions (e.g., Wayfarer, Rhys), but this is a disappointing wine.
  
  Bright red in color; medium in body; aromas of candied cherry, crushed pomegranate, and cranberry, with few tertiary notes. The flavors are similarly linear, with notes of strawberry pie, rhubarb, and anise, with a sugary and lingering finish. 14.9% alcohol. Followed over four hours, with little development.
  
  P.S. I tasted this next to a 2017 Lafon Volnay, a cheaper wine that showed far more integration, class, and nuance. It wasn't just the sweetness - though it was there (i.e., the Lafon = Pellegrino, Morlet = Sprite) - it was the balance. Believe me, this isn't the figment of a Francophile imagination (I can't even pronounce a lot of the stuff on the label). The Volnay was way, way better: balance matters, and the Morlet - no matter how hard it tries - lacks it.

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  10/7/2022 - Bob23 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Very solid - complete package with lovely balance.

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  8/19/2022 - M.M. wrote: 95 Points

  Balanced. Smell of carmel, chocolate, and smoke. But taste is very fruity, of cherry. Nice medium body, exactly right for Pinot Noir. Tasted among 6 friends. All liked. B remarked on balance. MP remarked on fruit smell - "bruised strawberry". Very good all around.
  
  R: Buy again (but expensive)

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  7/11/2022 - RJWallis Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Very old world, a pleasant difference from most Cali Pinots, more subtle and nuanced, cherry cola still there but in a beautiful mix of other notes. Love this.

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  3/12/2022 - sirpat00 wrote: 94 Points

  Bright red fruit profile showing sour cherry and rhubarb, but also with darker elements to it. Herbal dimension, spice and marginally earthy. This is ripe and New World stylistically, sweet with a touch of candy on the palate, great freshness and structure. The only thing missing for greatness is complexity. Overall this was more or less on a par with similar wines from Littorai and DuMOL.

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