Community Tasting Notes 14

• wineshlub wrote: 91 points

  July 9, 2021 - Fragrant raspberry aroma. Rich, slightly sweet flavors of cherry, earth. Mineral notes in the finish. Very New World California style but missing the dreaded Cherry Cola flavor.
  
  Drinking well, no sign of decline.

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• lolo66 wrote: 93 points

  January 3, 2020 - Blind Jan 3rd (Wu's Wonton King): Served blind and this one hell of a ringer. I have had bottle variation with this wine, so was pleasantly surprised this was showing clean as a whistle. Very deep, lurid, old world notes. The 2009 has put on serious weight and even tastes a touch older that a 2009.Not your typical pinot, has more in common with a fine nebbiolo or a south rhone wine done in a feminine way. All that said, very wild notes of cherries, field herbs, mushroms, pine needles and earth.

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• Mmark wrote:

  January 20, 2018 - Very nature wine in colour and by the nose. After two hours airing it was still not showing anything but grape juice. Most likely a bad bottle..

• lolo66 wrote:

  October 5, 2016 - a little dirty, but not so much as I couldn't enjoy a wonderful full bodied yet balanced expression fo new world pinot that def leans towards old world.

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• Arinbraghe Likes this wine:

  August 23, 2015 - I opened this bottle, the first Clos Saron wine for me, expecting to find anything from Grand Cru Burgundy lookalike to bacteriological horror show. Didn't get the former, but we definitely didn't get the latter either. I'm sure there's a lot of bottle variation at play from following online commentary here and elsewhere, but while our bottle showed a significant amount of spritz the wine itself was reasonably clear and fruity. It did require a hearty, 20-second shake to dispel the gas, but almost immediately afterwards began to show plenty of charming, mature/muddled dark berry flavors. I also get where people point up some oxidative notes, since there's a brown brick dust bassnote to the dark-fruited profile that was plain but (for me) not off-putting. The texture was the most appealing element here, as the tannins are barely a feathery whisper at this point but the minerality lends almost a pea gravel sensation in the mouth. Whether this is due to the wine or to some remaining dissolved gas isn't clear, but the overall effect in this bottle at least, was very charming. I was hoping for 'drinkable,' this was all of that and then some.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2009
• Type Red
• Producer Clos Saron
• Varietal Pinot Noir
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Home Vineyard
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Sierra Foothills
• Appellation Sierra Foothills

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• In Cellars 71 (57%)
• Consumed 53 (42%)

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