Community Tasting Note

• Arinbraghe wrote:

  February 7, 2014 - Dark, brooding, and oh-so serious. Ayres makes impeccable, mineral-driven, elegant Pinot Noirs, and this is no exception. But damn this wine sure doesn't want to have fun! The fruit has fully shifted into secondary mode, and nobody on Kistler's or Kosta Browne's mailing list would give this a second sip. But right now it's also a bit of a humorless clod, with this unchanging monolith of black-tinged, minerally fruit that dominates the sense impression. You can tell that these folks love Burgundy, that it's their lodestar, but unlike say a top-drawer Savigny-les-Beaune of similar vintage, this bottle hardly changes an iota from first pour to the dregs.

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