Community Tasting Notes 45

• PDX-S wrote:

  March 9, 2024 - Still drinking incredibly well.
  Cork looked intact, but completely disintegrated. Had to pour through two mesh strainers, essentially decanting twice, in order to clear the debris.
  Still, the wine held up for three plus hours, displaying incredible acidity and persistence.
  The wine looked completely bricked, coming in a rusty orange brown, yet there was still fruit and balsamic notes galore. Such an intriguing romp of an aged CA Pinot Noir.

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• diffwine Likes this wine: 93 points

  January 5, 2024 - This was a really nice wine, particularly for the price of $44.
  
  Epitomizes the similarities between pinot noir and nebbiolo for me. This drank like an aged nebbiolo with perfectly resolved tannins.
  
  Desiccated rose, sous bois, mushroom, sour cherries. It did gain a little body after 4+ hours of being opened, so last glass was probably the best.
  
  I don't think there's much use to aging this further, I'd drink up what you have left over the next couple years.

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• TexasBob Likes this wine: 93 points

  December 27, 2023 - Glowing lite Brown-orange. Overripe red berry melange, quite sharp, on the nose. Drinks like a cab franc with explosive red fruit astringency including pomegranate, cranberries, Valencia orange, aggressive acids, and a wonderfully balanced sweet/tart ratio. Perfectly aged.

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• jviz wrote: 91 points

  October 19, 2023 - This had a rather beautiful tertiary nose, lovely bit of library and a tiny hint of rubber cement, on the palate some cranberry fruit with ample spice but somewhat sharp and abrasive acidity. This falls into the more interesting than delicious category.

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• TexasBob Likes this wine: 94 points

  August 15, 2023 - Dull medium garnet red. Sweet, honeyed red fruits on the nose. Sweet red cherries with intense raspberry sourness. Aged to perfection. Delicious.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2000
• Type Red
• Producer Kalin Cellars
• Varietal Pinot Noir
• Designation Cuvée DD
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Sonoma County
• Appellation Sonoma County

Community Holdings

• Pending Delivery 11 (4%)
• In Cellars 158 (54%)
• Consumed 124 (42%)

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