2003 Adrian Fog Pinot Noir Demuth Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (7) Median Score: 90 points

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  9/9/2017 - Burgundy Al wrote: 88 Points

  Very ripe black and red cherry with baking and wood spice. Enough tannins and acidity to keep this well balanced. Popped and poured, this improved for an hour in glass, seemingly getting longer. Held up better than a bottle of the 2002 opened earlier this summer.

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  6/3/2016 - alpha_ori Likes this wine: 91 Points

  PnP, this wine was thin and acidic, to the point that I set it aside and opened something else up instead. As a 13 year old new world pinot, I didn't expect it to evolve in a positive way with air, but I was very wrong. This wound up being tart but balanced, invigorating, and delicious.

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  4/7/2014 - sbbulldog wrote: 91 Points

  These get better. Northern area, Demuth, is home to some great vines. Still a more tart Pinot, with good aromatics and a young affect. Red berries, good acid, hard to imagine that these Adrian Fog wines ever die.

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  1/4/2013 - CarpeVinoDiem Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Perfect provenance (PWSF; auction bottle)
  No notes taken.
  Decanted 30 mins.
  Virtually no sediment (only slight micro).
  
  Cork: Perfect clean painted end flared cork.
  
  Look: Medium orange red with slight brick '03.
  
  Nose taste: Black cherry, spice, musk, lt. alcohol, lt. soap (!), cranberry, rose petal.
  
  Body: 2.5% milk.
  
  Mouth taste: Black cherry, musk, spice, lt. cranberry, lt. vanilla, maple.
  
  BIG BIG tannins on the end.
  
  Drinks like the great Anderson Valley appellation it is, but with some Barbaresco and Amarone mixed in. With the tannic levels, almost like a young Barbaresco.
  
  Finish: 98 seconds!
  
  90/91 pts.
  
  Recommend decant this big hot girl about 3 hrs.
  
  Pair with decent tannic food (Pork roast seared with brown sugar and cooked submerged in Pinot Noir/Valpolicella/Amarone until falling apart.
  
  Showing great now. I would tend to drink up within a couple yrs.

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  11/13/2012 - sbbulldog wrote: 90 Points

  Enjoyed with mushroom pasta. Light color, hard candy nose, sour cherry taste with some sparkly notes. Pleasant, long finish. Should be over the hill, but isn't. I'll sample the second half tomorrow.

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