1996 Torii Mor Pinot Noir White Rose Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (10) Avg Score: 89.4 points

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  4/20/2023 - senesd Likes this wine: 90 Points

  light color a bit of browning very nice fruit and. classic Oregon pinot flavors of strawberry and cherry in the mouth would like to see a bit more in the finish but overall given its age showing quite nicely but should be drunk

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  1/6/2021 - UpfromtheCellar wrote: 90 Points

  I've been all over the map (scoring wise) over the past decade, depending on the individual bottle and how it presented at the time. This bottle fell midway in the range - mature but well preserved, it drank nicely over the first couple of hours before falling apart and becoming shrill after 3-4 hours. Not bad for a 25 year old O-noir.
  
  In truth, this wine should probably have been opened back in the early 00's but that was when I was in my "anything that tastes great now/couple of years will taste even better in another 10-15!" phase. As one gains age/perspective/wisdom(?) I've come to realize that there is a moment for everything (some moments have big windows and some do not) and to just sit back and enjoy. Too many of us that cellar and collect wine like to think we can capture a moment and hold it in suspended animation forever - and sometimes we do, but most of the time not so much.
  
  This was a wonderful wine and has outlived its creator (RIP) but its time to move on.

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  5/8/2016 - UpfromtheCellar wrote: 87 Points

  At 20 years on, this Patricia Green wine was all tea and roses with a hint of savory and fruits. Faded noticeably from my last bottle several years ago, it remains balanced and enjoyable to drink but way past its prime at this point. Very careful cellar conditions these past decades has probably preserved it much longer than possible under more normal conditions.

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  2/11/2014 - UpfromtheCellar wrote: 89 Points

  Faded from my last bottle back in '11, but still that combination of black, tea, rose petal, a hint of savory. Drink up. This wine has lasted long enough and O-noirs have moved on to a newer style.
  
  Even the wine maker(s) have moved on and don't really care about this bottling anymore.

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  10/25/2011 - UpfromtheCellar wrote: 94 Points

  This wine was amazing. It has reached a certain place that very few Pinots ever do - that ethereal balance of a very fine old black tea and perfectly balanced Rose Water! The last bottle I had that could even compare was a 20 year old Pinotage from South Africa about 7 or 8 years ago, which as memory serves me, was quite the same. I could probably rate this wine higher, but as so few of you can even remotely begin to understand, it would just confuse the situation. Besides, it's something of an acquired taste these days, a fairly unique expression of Pinot that requires such long years of perfect cellaring to even have a remote chance to achieve that most people never encounter a wine like this. Let's leave it where it is. Perfectly balanced, light, effortless, and yet you can clearly pick out the individual components clearly if you focus - think of listening to an orchestra playing something magical and yet if you concentrate you can pick out each instrument by itself if you want to. Patricia Green did a really outstanding job here! Bravo!! Bravissimo!!

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