2009 Loring Wine Company Pinot Noir Shea Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (12) Avg Score: 89.7 points

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  7/9/2014 - underwds wrote: 90 Points

  Good cherry and raspberry fruit. Plush mouth feel and beginning to get rust at the edges. Some spice at the finish adds a little complexity. Much better an hour after opening.
  
  8/25/2015 I noticed a lot more earthiness on the finish this time, and more brick in the color. Fruit is still front and center, but the overall complexity seems to have increased. This is drinking really well right now.

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  3/25/2014 - calodo2011 Does not like this wine: 84 Points

  Never thought that the term 'good riddance' would ever enter my mind vis a vis wine in my collection, but this was the final bottle of a saga of six where I never saw the same wine twice. I desperately wanted to finally unscrew the top of a wine that showed the qualities of the producer & the vineyard; unfortunately, that quest ended on the oddest bottle yet. Not worth anything to try to dissect it, but we even tried it at various temperature levels over the course of three hours to coax something positive out of it, but to no avail. This will not damper my future outlook on either the producer or the vineyard, though!

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  3/24/2014 - calodo2011 wrote: 86 Points

  Real funky & disjointed. Looking forward to the second bottle to assess.

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  3/3/2013 - armchairsommelier wrote: 92 Points

  I’ve been a fan of Loring Wine Company (Lompoc, California) for years. They’re on my list of Pinot-Producers-Who-Can-Do-No-Wrong. The Shea Vineyard is in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. And Oregon is on my list of Pinot-Regions-That-Can-Do-No-Wrong. I LOVE the Oregon grapes with California style! This wine is so bright and pretty in the glass . . . like drinking liquid rubies. Beautifully balanced, silky texture, cranberry flavors abound.

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  2/11/2012 - jpecht wrote: 92 Points

  Drinking well right now. Great fruit at first giving way to spicy finish.

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