2005 Arcadian Pinot Noir Sleepy Hollow Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (87) Avg Score: 91.6 points

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  2/3/2024 - pjhr Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Delicious delicate red raspberry and earthy aromas and flavors wrapped in a silky texture with wonderful balance and smooth long finish. Continues to drink beautifully from 375ml!

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  8/7/2023 - DougLee wrote: 93 Points

  Translucent ruby color. Nose of crushed red berry, airy violets, iron, brier, hints of saline. Layers of black raspberry, bramble, iodine, earth, and ferric notes on the intense, forceful palate. Brash acidity and firm tannin leading to a long finish of deeply anchored dark berry and plum fruit cut with iron and crags. Last sips were best.

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  3/16/2023 - grafstrb wrote:

  -- decanted 30 min. before first taste --
  -- tasted non-blind over a couple hours --
  
  NOSE: cherry; fresh, sweet bakery -- light cinnamon and freshly-baked sweet dough.
  
  BODY: magenta-ruby color of medium-shallow depth; slight bricking at edges; medium-light bodied.
  
  TASTE: red-fruited (cherry stands out); little bit of stony mineral; high acidity; clean; medium-scaled and relatively straightforward for an Arcadian; it did improve over the first 1.5 hrs with air; most of the action is on the front palate. For years now, this wine has presented in a way that leads me to wonder if it has another gear left in it, or not --- if there's another gear, I would have expected some movement in that direction by now, but I'm not seeing it. That said, Joe has -- in the past -- suggested this wine will blossom around 2027, so the jury is still out. I still have six bottles remaining, so I'll certainly have the chance to find out what its future holds.

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  11/17/2022 - Diane (LI) wrote:

  Earthy with raspberry and dried fig, and a burst of cherry at the finish. Delightful, and if you have it, you should drink it.

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  6/4/2022 - DougLee wrote: 93 Points

  Totally excellent.

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