Community Tasting Notes 5

• LesPaul Likes this wine:

  January 4, 2024 - This wine has come along nicely in just half a year. Cerise is among my favorite vineyards, but the Phillips Hill releases from this fruit weren't as predictably wonderful as from some other producers. I recall that the 2016 has been a little hard to love through its life, but here at the crack of 2024 it's almost excellent. Lots of cherry, of course, though not unpleasantly sour, and so much of that Anderson Valley sort of forest/almost funk/mixed with pennyroyal - really distinctive. I wish the body was a little more substantial, but this is very good wine by any measure. Maybe it's going to keep getting even better over the next year or two?

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• LesPaul Likes this wine: 89 points

  July 21, 2023 - I love this vineyard and this producer both, but together it seemed they never quite clicked. Maybe Phillips Hill somehow get lesser fruit from Cerise than other labels did? So although this wine is distinctive, well-made, and still drinking well in mid-2023, to me it doesn't have the special alchemy I hoped for. The characteristic tartness of Cerise is there, but leans just a touch toward sourness. There's a nice concentration on the nose and front palate, but it falls aways just a little too quickly into a more aqueous finish. My sense is that this wine has another 2-3 years at this level - no signs of incipient decline.

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• gingerbreadman Likes this wine: 99 points

  February 27, 2022 - I agree with JunetoAugust. This is a fine wine and the consumption window guide was inaccurate so I adjusted longer. More burgundy than Pinot Noir. This wine has the characteristics for much longer aging and I am hopeful it will only mature positively. At least 5 years more and maybe longer. I’m unsure it will last that long on my cellar though given it’s quality.

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• junetoaugust Likes this wine: 91 points

  January 10, 2021 - Pop and poured to a translucent crimson wine that seemed to work its way towards brick coloring as you swirled, very striking. The nose has a truly unique smokey red fruit licorice, toasted cedar and tobacco elements. The palate flavors follow suit with bright cherry leading with additional earth minerality. The wine isn’t tired in any way, but to me it presents its self as an older pinot than 2016 thanks to a certain warmth on it. On the finish this one leans into more classic pinot elements with mushroom and darker fruit lingering on.

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• Joelflies wrote:

  January 11, 2019 - Last year. wait. has more 2015

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2016
• Type Red
• Producer Phillips Hill
• Varietal Pinot Noir
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Cerise Vineyard
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion North Coast
• Appellation Anderson Valley

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• In Cellars 28 (37%)
• Consumed 47 (63%)

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