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Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 94 points

  • First time I've had one of these with age. I don't think these wines really hit their stride until a vintage or two after this one, so I wasn't expecting a ton. The good news is that it's held up chemically - no doubt the screwcap helps matters - a very clean showing. The zesty orange flavors it showed on release are still here and very much in the foreground. There's a base of fruit underneath that that feels denser and sweeter than I remember - definitely New World style fruit, not fat but fairly slick - which has picked up a more crimson tone and a slight leathery quality with age. The citrus gives it a refreshing feel. Drank with fried chicken and paired just fine.

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  • Drank alongside a 2008 AngelFlower. Of the two, this was the more "serious" wine. In the past couple years, this has fleshed out and lost of some it's adolescent awkwardness and is drinking beautifully. It has some real power now. The fruit still dominates, but maybe a little less so. It certainly no longer stands apart from the complex mix; the wine is wonderfully balanced, more an integrated whole-ness (whole-ocity?) than a list of descriptors could explain.

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  • Definitely a one-off. A Pinot aroma but not one that I have smelt before; floral, perfume/spicy, earthy (not savoury), smokey - quite difficult to describe, definitely unique. The palate was seemingly moderate weight with a good backbone of acidity (which I wasn't really expecting). Stood up to the venison dish we had it with.

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  • Consumed over two days without decanting. I echo the positive notes below about the wonderful nose, which is a soaring melange of red fruit and citrus. Biting acidity on the palate with a long finish, just like a good burg. My wife, a white wine drinker who I have unsuccessfully tried to convert to a pinot fan as well, loved it. Thank you Matt Kramer for the find.

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  • Initially, this wine gives me mixed feelings. The aroma is intensely evocative, like a breeze through an orange grove abounding with flowers. The palate, too, offers plenty of juicy citrus and finishes with a backdraft of that floral perfume. But the florality is almost too much... it leaves a lavender-like aftertaste which gives the feeling of something intended to be smelled rather than consumed. Perhaps the price of being interesting is that it is also a little strange. Curious to see how it develops.

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  • By Stephen Tanzer
    September/October 2008, IWC Issue #140, (See more on Vinous...)

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