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Red
1980 Mount Eden Vineyards Pinot Noir
Pinot Noir
- USA
- California
- Santa Cruz Mountains
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Community Tasting Notes 8
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mjg87 wrote:
June 26, 2015 - Chinese medicinal herbs and coffee. Super spicy nose.
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yhn wrote: 87 points
April 15, 2011 - No notes, but this still has some life left, despite being past its prime. Evolved well over the course of the dinner and still had life left when I revisited 6 hours later. A bit dull, good complexity, prominent kalamata olive.
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Paul Lin wrote: 65 points
July 17, 2007 - San Diego Pinot-fest (Cuvee Restaurant - Del Mar, CA): This was an interesting wine to taste but not to drink. In spite of the ironic novelty of this wine, I found it rather incoherent and lifeless as a pinot; it should have been euthanized years ago. Aromas of charred cabbages and beef broth give way to a very off-putting flavor of cabbage stew and beef jerky on the palate (and I like beef jerky!). Acid and wood closes off the experiment. Undrinkable, to me at least.
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Wilson95005 wrote: flawed
July 12, 2007 - Dead and smelled like it had been buried for a while.
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jamiekutch wrote:
December 15, 2006 - 30 years of Santa Cruz / Mount Eden Pinot Noirs with Dan Kravitz: My second time with this wine. The first was with our host in Baltimore along with Dan Kravitz so it was fun to taste it again with Dan. I would have bet the farm this was the 1980 Mount Eden as having just revealed the 1979 in the prior flight the similarities were splitting images. The difference I found between the 79 to 80 was that the 80 had more reverence (a little more of everything) while the 79 is slightly more delicate. Both are clearly blockbusters. Made from 100% whole cluster as was the 79, this practice stopped in 1982 unfortunately. In a word, Awesome!
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By John Gilman
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By Richard Jennings
6/14/2008 (link) 82 points(Mount Eden Vineyards Pinot Noir) Medium brick red color with clear meniscus; VA and savory palate with green notes; tart, mature, forest floor and stemmy palate with green notes; medium finish (100% whole cluster)
Wine Definition
- Vintage 1980
- Type Red
- Producer Mount Eden Vineyards
- Varietal Pinot Noir
- Designation n/a
- Vineyard n/a
- Country USA
- Region California
- SubRegion Santa Cruz Mountains
- Appellation Santa Cruz Mountains
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 0 (0%)
- In Cellars 7 (78%)
- Consumed 2 (22%)
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- ProducerMount Eden Vineyards
- VarietyPinot Noir
- CountryUSA
- RegionCalifornia
- AppellationSanta Cruz Mountains
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