October 29, 2023 - Stilldrrinkable and
January 28, 2023 - Amazing Pinot!
December 22, 2022 - Full to the brim for every sense. Masterful, powerful.
November 29, 2022 - Delicious but need to filter. Fair amount sediment. Lot’s of fruit…..plum, apricot and earth. Nice to start and opens up with a little time.
Very nice.
December 21, 2021 - We will travel to the ends of the earth for a perfect Pinot and pizza pairing. Tonight, a 2011 Belle Glos Clarke & Telephone with 1943 Pizza Bar’s New Haven pizza (white pizza with garlic mashed potatoes and bacon) with caramelized onions and their special white pizza with fontina, artichoke, Fresno chili, pesto and roasted mushrooms. It was an outdoor aprés ski vibe (certainly felt that way with 35°F temps! Belle Glos is a ‘controversial’ Pinot producer, with some calling it an over-extracted fruit bomb. I instead like to remind people that the Pinot grape has more genome variety than humans, so there’s plenty of room to explore. The 2011 Clarke & Telephone has mellowed out from the cherry bomb that it once was, with cherry, strawberry, cedar and spice box, mellow tannins but retains its balanced acidity. #92points.
December 8, 2020 - This has taken on some nice secondary flavors and is still holding together
November 20, 2020 - A Favorite - strong bold
May 16, 2019 - Last bottle of this Pinot that tastes like Grenache. Drank with a chicken in marinara sauce dish. Sweet cherry, a little cola. Very atypical but good.
May 3, 2019 - Extremely nice bottle. Smooth. Tastes of black cherry and other dark fruit. Well balanced.
The wine looks ruby colored. The legs are medium. There is light sediment in the bottle. It smells like strawberry, blackberry, strawberry jam and forest floor. The body is medium/full. The wine has juicy texture. The wine finishes long. The wine has medium acidity.
January 24, 2019 - This one seems better than a bottle I opened a few weeks ago. In a horizontal with Las Alturas, several friends like this one better. I find it a rather heavy and not very pinot-like, yet it was quite good and easy to like. None of the harshness that many pinots present with.
Not near the end of its drinking window despite the current CT range ending 2018.