Community Tasting Notes 10

• bdhanna Likes this wine: 92 points

  April 23, 2024 - My, oh my !! Tasty juice !! At peak !!
  This is a balanced Pinot Noir that I consumed over two days. Cork saturated about half-way up after over a dozen years but easily removed. Deep ruby color with no oxidation, clarity medium. Aromas of pomegranate and caramel, flavors of sweet cranberry, cherry, rhubarb, and forest floor with a pleasant medium to long finish. This wine really held in there and had not fallen apart on day two. Great fruit with firm acidity made into a very balanced Pinot Noir from the Taboni vineyard, a small 15-acre Pinot Noir vineyard near the intersection of Olivet Lane and River Road, in the heart of Russian River Valley. A beautifully sloped vineyard with great loamy clay and mineral soil planted to Dijon 115, 667, 777, and Pommard 5 clones. This Pinot Noir is a surprisingly age worthy wine and has more years of life left. I still have three more bottles of this vintage remaining in my cellar; I may open one in the next few months or so to verify my rating.

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• david-greenwald@comcast.net Likes this wine: 93 points

  May 30, 2020 - Tasted last night. used Coravin. This wine is great. Holding up very well. Pomegranate/maturity, and vanilla notes on the long finish. Fruit and acid balance are in alignment. It s not getting any better, but this wine is drinking great right now. Went really well with veggie pizza with red peppers. Wish I had another bottle... glad I waited.
  The wine looks crimson colored. The legs are medium. There is no sediment in the bottle.

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• VAD wrote: 91 points

  January 9, 2017 - On the lighter side for a Pinot. Nice fruit. Decent finish.

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• Kahnru12 wrote: 92 points

  February 6, 2016 - A great RRV Pinot. Deep blueberry nose. Rich blueberry entry leads to berry pie with spice and bright dark fruit mid. Nice finish which is well rounded and prolonged.

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• VAD wrote: 93 points

  November 27, 2015 - Fruit forward. Great balance and flavor. Drinking well.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2010
• Type Red
• Producer Arista Winery
• Varietal Pinot Noir
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Toboni Vineyard
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Sonoma County
• Appellation Russian River Valley

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• In Cellars 50 (38%)
• Consumed 83 (62%)

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