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2009 Littorai Pinot Noir The Haven
Pinot Noir
- USA
- California
- Sonoma County
- Sonoma Coast
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Community Tasting Notes 26
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jlgnml Likes this wine: 95 points
February 17, 2023 - Drinking like an older burg. Lots and earthy flavors. Decanted for an hour. Perfect time to enjoy with great friends.
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jlgnml Likes this wine: 93 points
June 23, 2022 - Drank over 2 nights. Very expressive PN nose, good structure, palate feel with a great finish. Drink.
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gsiokis Likes this wine: 93 points
January 1, 2022 - Wine is in its peak window. Red fruited, floral, with light spice aromas. Moderate acidity. Last bottle.
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bdhanna Likes this wine: 92 points
August 15, 2021 - This wine is delicious and at its peak !!
Perfect cork after over a decade in the bottle, removed easily. Consumed over two days. This balanced wine showed more fruit on the first day and had softened just a little to an increased depth and integrated complexity on the second day. Light ruby color with no oxidation and medium clarity. Aromas of red cherry and cranberry. Flavors of bing cherry, pomegranate, and rhubarb with a hint of baking spice. This Pinot Noir has a medium to long finish. A balanced and flavorful Pinot Noir that may have more years of life remaining, fortunately I still have one bottle of this vintage remaining in the cellar. A great fruit sources from the Haven which is located at 1,200 feet elevation between Occidental and the Pacific. There are approximately 40 different rootstock and clonal combinations within this small four-acre vineyard. The Haven is very cool and late ripening with 12 clones on soils of Hugo-Josephine loams; the property is very heterogeneous with uplifted undersea volcanics, sandstones, shales, and serpentine-derived loams. All of these elements and great winemaking from Ted Lemmon combine to consistently produce a fine Pinot Noir.1 person found this helpful Comment -
jlgnml Likes this wine: 93 points
April 24, 2021 - Good color, good nose, got better in the glass. Drink
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By James Suckling
10/22/2018 (link)(Littorai Pinot Noir Sonoma County Sonoma Coast The Haven Vineyard, Red, United States) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Antonio Galloni
The Best of Sonoma (Feb 2012) (link)(Littorai Pinot Noir The Haven Sonoma Coast) Subscribe to see review text.
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By John Gilman
May/Jun 2011, Issue #33, Recently Tasted California Wines The Search for Traditionalists Turns Up A Crowd(Pinot Noir “The Haven Vineyard” (Sonoma Coast)- Littorai Vineyards) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Stephen Tanzer
May/June 2011, IWC Issue #156 (link)(Littorai Pinot Noir The Haven Vineyard Sonoma Coast) Subscribe to see review text.
Wine Definition
- Vintage 2009
- Type Red
- Producer Littorai
- Varietal Pinot Noir
- Designation n/a
- Vineyard The Haven
- Country USA
- Region California
- SubRegion Sonoma County
- Appellation Sonoma Coast
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 0 (0%)
- In Cellars 275 (58%)
- Consumed 197 (42%)
Food Pairing
No food pairings available.
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- SubRegionSonoma County
- AppellationSonoma Coast
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