Community Tasting Notes 21

• Jay Hack wrote: 91 points

  December 14, 2012 - This has aged beautifully. Other notes disagree. Maybe I just got the best bottle. Too bad that Dain decided to give it up. My fault. I should have bought more of his wine. Popped and poured. Mild cherry an red fruit with elegance and a smoothness as it goes down. There is a bit of light spice to give it some depth, but not much. A note I wrote four years ago says there is a maple syrup flavor without the sweetness. I did not get that maple at all this time, but the fruit was beginning t exhibit some sweetness. There was also the beginning of some sort of leathery age - not like a right bank Bordeaux leather but something that let me know this was not bottled yesterday.

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• dinwiddie wrote: 88 points

  July 31, 2011 - Nice flavors of raspberry, a little cola and tart cherrys. Unfortunately it is starting break down a little. Thinner than I remembered, but still nice structure and balance. My wife thought it a little hot at first, but as it sat in the glass it mellowed. I doubt that this had much life left, and I'd drink it up now.

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• Frank Murray III wrote:

  April 29, 2009 - The structure I remarked on with my TN from 10/06 is markedly changed here, unfortunately. As much as that bottle portended something ahead, the wine has not held up. This bottle showed some VA, brown sugar nose and was on the richer side. It's lost much of what attracted me to it and of all the Dains I have drank over time (and I have consistently enjoyed mine), this one just didn't show. We stopped about 1/2 way into the bottle. Suggest drink up quickly, at best.

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• pinotwinelover wrote: 91 points

  January 26, 2009 - Brought this along to a 2007 Dain tasting and it has come along very nicely. Dain agreed as he had not had this a few years. It had that candied fruit with a bit of age. I think all enjoyed.

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• jfkwines wrote: 90 points

  December 30, 2008 - Nice plum, red bing cherrries and hint of kiwi ( maybe?), a little sweet cola on the mouth . Very good now , we enjoyed over two nights. A wine to enjoy this winter,as it has intergrated throughout, I would not expect this wine to do much more over time.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2004
• Type Red
• Producer Dain Wines
• Varietal Pinot Noir
• Designation Anticipation
• Vineyard Alder Springs Vineyard
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion North Coast
• Appellation Mendocino County

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• In Cellars 11 (13%)
• Consumed 72 (87%)

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