Community Tasting Notes 12

• Scottlmatthews Likes this wine: 91 points

  February 19, 2024 - Starts with a nose of bing cherry, lush plum, mineral notes of iodine. Palate starts with ripe cherry, and acidic ripened plum. Mid palate is intense fruit with iron soil minerals. Finishing with dark cherry

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• wcf1946 Does not like this wine: 82 points

  February 2, 2024 - Unfortunately I don't share the high accolades like most of the other reviews. The pleasant dark cherry fruity nose ends there. Dark garnet color, no tannins or finish. Dull flat taste. No vibrant perky structure, only boring. Not corked, but perhaps closed, or perhaps got overheated at some point. Drank over 2 days & no improvement. I posted comments for the 2018 Cap's Crown Vineyard. It's night and day with Durell. I have a 2nd bottle and will open in a year and see where it is.

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• austinwineguy Likes this wine: 89 points

  August 21, 2021 - Needed more time to age. Wine was much better on second day

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• Frijole wrote:

  August 3, 2021 - medium ruby cherry red, lots of clarity, silvery hue
  Nose: plum, black cherry, cola, bitter greens, stem, black pepper, touch cassis, touch oak
  Pal: plum, black cherry, cola, tobacco, minerals, bitter greens, stem, green pepper, tannins, touch oak
  Feel: medium, tart, acidic
  Finish: medium
  T7C6
  acidity is a bit unbalanced

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• Hi.its.Don.4.Wine Likes this wine: 94 points

  August 13, 2020 - Patience is a Virtue . . Sometimes Even in Wine
  
  It took just about everything I had to not rip through my Three Sticks Pinot Noir Durell Vineyard 2017
  
  As their flagship wine (my words not theirs, but I doubt they’d argue), I wanted to be patient and wait for at least a year before trying the wine. Not that I expected it to be less than optimal, just that with a Pinot with this much structure and finesse it would be better served with at least another year in bottle.
  
  Not just their flagship wine but from their Durell vineyard, representing the birthplace for Three Sticks, the vineyard being purchased in 1997, this wine marks the 20th Anniversary of their beginning, commemorating the occasion with a special black artwork label, a throwback to their origins.
  
  I also thought that this would be advantageous timing as their 2018 Vintage has just been released. Maybe I’ll wait a year to review that wine as well.
  
  There is nothing to dissuade me from exclaiming the awesomeness of the wine. Beginning with “sous bois” aromas (fancy name for forest floor) that comingle with dark fruit leading to those same qualities upon tasting. Dried dark cherry notes that, while still in their infancy, are touched by both the whole-cluster fermentation of 27% of the fruit and the 15 months aging in 100% French Oak barrels comprised of 40% new oak, to add a rustic element emulating some of the finest Burgundy wines. Spice notes on the finish serve to elongate the experience to allow you to settle in and delight in the wine.
  
  From all accounts, 2018 should be as good, if not even a touch better, so contact the winery to secure an allotment before it sells out just as the 2017 vintage did.
  
  Cheers

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2017
• Type Red
• Producer Three Sticks
• Varietal Pinot Noir
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Durell Vineyard
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Sonoma County
• Appellation Sonoma Coast

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• In Cellars 283 (47%)
• Consumed 310 (52%)

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