Community Tasting Note

• Steve Simmons Likes this wine:

  February 15, 2021 - 2018 Marie-Paule Pinot Noir, 93pts/Editors’ Choice (WE) (50/50% destemmed/whole cluster)—$32 retail, see tasting notes below. 167 cases produced, only 76 remain. Cortell-Rose Vineyard, Eola-Amity Hills AVA, Willamette Valley, Oregon.
  
  WE Tasting Notes: “This cuvée was half fermented with whole clusters. It’s a precise, focused wine—the blackberry and black cherry fruit has a gentle squirt of lemony acidity. It’s lively and clean, with no sulfites added, and a lovely showcase for this outstanding vineyard.” 93pts., Editors’ Choice, P. Gregutt, Wine Enthusiast, Oct 2020
  
  “Moderately dark garnet color in the glass. Delicate aromas of blackberry, black currant and sweet tobacco. Well-endowed with lavish, dark fruits that offer more pop and finishing length than that found in the Colette bottling. There is a little more, but not intrusive, tannic spine evident (than the Colette).” 91 pts., Rusty Gaffney, Prince of Pinot, Nov 2020

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• David @Sun Break Wines commented:

  2/25/21, 10:41 PM - Thanks for sharing the pro notes! As of Feb 25 2021 only 40-ish cases left of this Pinot.

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