Community Tasting Notes 53

• JRockEsq Likes this wine: 89 points

  May 4, 2024 - Method: pop and pour; chilled; Burg glass
  
  Look: medium+ garnet-plum
  
  Nose: ripe cranberry, blood orange, forest floor, light mushroom
  
  Palate: cranberry, underripe cherry, maybe some slight underlying earthiness; long finish blood orange, dried herbs; dry; medium body; medium tannin; medium+ acidity
  
  Overall thoughts: Very nice nose with good mix of fruit and earth. The palate is more fruity, but definitely not too ripe, with a hint of earthiness to make it a bit more interesting. Well balanced and put together. 88 - 89 points. Very good wine.

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• AlyssaRock12 wrote: 91 points

  May 4, 2024 - Nose: blood orange, forest floor, cranberry, mushroom, crushed gravel; great nose
  
  Palate: blood orange, herbs, cranberry, forest floor; med - body; med + acid; smooth
  
  Overall: in a really nice place right now, nicely put together

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• jshufelt wrote: 91 points

  February 20, 2024 - Largely consistent with our tasting notes from the better bottles from the case - the perfume, the fruit, and the structure are there. If you have any left, no better time than the present.

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• Frank Murray III wrote:

  October 14, 2023 - Over 4 years since the last bottle. Was interested to see how this was aging. Open an hour. There are some blue tones here, yet the fruit signature is squarely in the red spectrum, both of cherry and pomegranate. And the acidity is still present enough to add some grip to the wine, along with some wood tannin (?). The oak here does seem to be more present than I remember, adding a cherry-vanilla note to the wine. As for the whole cluster that has been such a part of more recent Falstaff, I don't sense much here. There is still some staying power for this 2014, with all the parts still fresh.

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• PIntag wrote: flawed

  September 30, 2023 - Recent auction purchase.
  Badly oxidized. Undrinkable. Shame.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2014
• Type Red
• Producer Kutch
• Varietal Pinot Noir
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Falstaff Vineyard
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Sonoma County
• Appellation Sonoma Coast

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• In Cellars 429 (50%)
• Consumed 427 (50%)

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