3/25/2023 - Denny the Drinker Does not like this wine:

The wine looks straw colored. It smells like melon, grapefruit, flint and petrol. It tastes like ethanol, biscuity and alcohol/hot. Its not balanced at all, with overwhelming mineral and ethanol flavors. While its possible the wine had gone corked, there was no musty/moldy scent or flavors, nor was there any hint of vinegar, so I think this is simply how the wine is flavored. I even let it set out and warm up a bit to see if that would mellow the flavor, but it did not.

2/22/2013 - Keith Levenberg wrote:

This is Exhibit A that proves not only that California can make gorgeous pinots with classical, Burgundian proportions but that the result can feel natural and effortless. There is no sense here that the fruit "wants" to do something else or that it is being squeezed into a smaller frame. To the contrary, this is a wine of pampering elegance with an open-knit, undulating flow of pure pinot fruit, which seems just starting to develop some deeper, brothy savoriness underneath. But mostly this is about the gorgeously pure fruit, cashmere refinement, and feminine weight. The last wine I had that pulled off that effect in such an instantly captivating and comfortable way was a Fourrier at 4x this price.