October 30, 2016 - 500 ml bottle. Baking spice and red cherry aromas, nicely mature. Similar flavors, slightly more advanced, with moderately firm tannins on finish. These were better a few years back, so certainly time to drink up,
August 7, 2012 - I haven't revisited this wine in 3 or 4 years, and it is still holding up well in these odd little 500 ml bottles. Still fresh red cherry on nose with a slight cola hints and some earth background notes. Same red cherry on palate, modest spice, but an ever-so-slightly bitter hint on finish.
May 29, 2010 - Medium maroon color, with noticable bricking on rim. the legs are thin but slow. The nose is strong! Hot asphalt, turning over a pile of week-old grass clippings, sweat, rootbeer, iodine and wet iron.
The initial palate is tart, tangy burnt rubber. The iron & iodine carry through with white pepper on the mid-palate. The same complexity in the nose isn't as evident on the palate. But, everything mellows and warms nicely on the finish, which has wonderful length. There's a fecundity and life energy to this bottle that evokes images of buxom farm women harvesting fruit on a drowsy, warm summer day. Cue Beethoven's 6th symphony Pastoral, or the final movement of the 9th full volume and look to the sun as it slowly sets on the horizon... That's livin'!
April 19, 2010 - gentle flavors of red cherry and graphite on a lite finish.
July 2, 2009 - still young and quite tannic--and this was a 500 ml bottle. it's an excellent wine if you want to drink a pinot masquerading as a cab . . . enough said. in it's favor i will say that it has none of the sappy-syrupy nonsense one finds in so many overcooked pinots. and it has decent complexity. still, for me, it's not even close to the equal of some much more humbly priced pinots from france, e.g., the 2007 Domaine D'Antugnac Cote Pierre Lys (which I'm drinking as I write this, recalling the glass of Antica Terra i consumed last night0
April 15, 2009 - Just want to add from my previous note that I had a magnum of 2002. May account for it showing so well, but regardless I thought it far from done. I have a couple 500ml bottles from the same vintage and will try one to see if the format is making a big difference.
December 28, 2008 - Better than other bottles I've had of this. Drink now, though.
November 28, 2008 - Just okay.
November 10, 2008 - mort
November 10, 2008 - dead