April 29, 2023 - Still doing well after 12 years. Light to medium bodied and full of great cherry nose and taste.
April 9, 2023 - Smooth, balanced. Dark raspberry & cherry cola.
November 19, 2022 - Very nice
August 17, 2022 - PnP, consumed over 1 hour. Appearance: Clear, medium ruby - dark for Pinot, but pretty typical for SC. Nose: Clean, medium+ intensity with developed aromas of baking spice, cloves, black cherry, raspberry, and herbs. Palate: Dry, medium acid and tannin, medium+ intensity, medium body, 14.4% abv with developed flavors of dried cherry, baking spice, and clove with a long finish. Overall this performed magnificently, over the brief hour spent with the wine it rounded out noticeably, hitting on all cylinders - balance, complexity, intensity and length. Can drink now or over next 2 years.
July 21, 2022 - 14.4% abv.
Received a partial bottle to try from my oenophile neighbor.
Served with roast beef. Clear dark ruby red on the pour. No bricking evident; bottle has always been carefully stored. Cherry & Raspberry on the nose. Exceptionally smooth, silk-like on the palate; Cola with Cherry. A nice round mouth feel with subdued tannins and moderate acidity. Nice lingering finish with the tannins and acid coming to the fore.
July 18, 2022 - Corked
May 30, 2022 - Pop and pour. Tasted with food (wood fired pizza, in case you were wondering). tasted along a 2019 Merry Edwards Sauvignon Blanc and a 2011 Ayoub Pinot Noir.
Ruby garnet color; shows slight bricking.
Nose offers brown spice (clove, nutmeg, cardamom) and raspberry with an earthy forest floor element.
Nice intro showing the red berry fruit with a good core of earth and spice. Sufficient acidity to keep things in balance and gives freshness to the wine.
Quite delicious.
March 7, 2022 - Finally, a wine I didn't let age too long!
Nose: (in descending order of prominence) damp earth, mushroom, cedar, cardamom, smoke, nutmeg
Palate: Dark fruit compote (mostly berry, but so blended that it's hard to put a finger on a specific flavor). I very much appreciate the absence of strong cherry notes, which I generally dislike in Pinots. [NOTE 1: Don't mistake my vagueness here for a lack of complexity; on the contrary, the fruit is so well integrated that I can't pick out anything specific because some other component distracts me soon enough.] [NOTE 2: After a couple of hours, I revisited this and got more boysenberry/mulberry/blackberry, along with some soy/fish sauce umami]
Finish: Tannins so well integrated that I think this is truly at its peak for drinking now (plus 1-3 years if you have many bottles on hand). There is a pleasantly jammy lingering note on the tongue, even though the wine itself has no overt sweet/cloying aspect to it. EtOH is quite present/noticeable; but in this case it encourages one to moderate one's sips, allowing for a gustatory refractory period. Acidity is mildly noticeable-- just right, as far as I'm concerned. (I used to buy Williams Selyem allocations and stopped several years ago, primarily because of their increased propensity for acidity.)
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January 29, 2022 - WIML92
Tasted non blind.
Garnet to dark garnet color in the glass, clear looking throughout. Nose of birch, berries and cherries. Flavors of berries, cherries and boysenberries. Medium acidity, medium tannin, full bodied. Drink now.
November 30, 2021 - On initial tasting (by Coravin), kind of tart, far overshadowing the fruit and character of the wine. Perhaps this will improve, but not typical of the KB deep fruit and nose I would have expected.