Community Tasting Notes 5

• Charlie C Likes this wine: 93 points

  March 27, 2024 - Cherry red color, fully translucent. Black Cherry and earth on the nose. Light and ethereal on the palate on first impression. Picks up some weight with air. Black cherry, moist earth, bit of strawberry. Minerals on the mid-palate. Fine tannins, lovely acidity, beautifully balanced. Long and lingering finish of strawberry and raspberry. Lovely, graceful Pinot Noir. Drink next 5 years.

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• Vinnut Likes this wine: 90 points

  March 22, 2024 - Dark, ruby red in color. Full, forward & attractive nose of ripe fruit aromas of cherries, blueberries & raspberries with overtones of spice & floral notes, forest floor/loam, pepper, minerals & a hint of sous-bois. Medium-full bodied with a very good concentration of well balanced & smooth textured, ripe fruit flavors of cherries, blueberries & cranberries with spices, cola, minerals & a touch of oak/vanilla. Long lingering finish. Drinks quite well with decanting & extended airing but may develop further with additional aging.

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• vino vidi vici Likes this wine:

  November 18, 2023 - Feminine, soft, gentle. A bit thin on Day 1. Once it had a chance to open up, became more savory and complex on Day 2 - mushrooms, earth, white pepper, strawberry, raspberry. I get the Echezeaux reference, although that's a bit of a stretch... Burgundian in style. A nice change of pace from the overwrought California offerings. 13.8% ABV.

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• patrick h wrote: flawed

  August 20, 2022 - Second tasting (coravin as before) revealed significant reduction. Tomato, rubber, struck match. Flawed. Disappointing. I picked up a tomato note on first tasting but it wasn’t right up front. I did not rate it as flawed. Now it is.

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• patrick h Likes this wine: 92 points

  August 11, 2022 - Outstanding. Like a young Echezeaux du Dessus in its fruit and a Savingy les Beaune 1er in its more delicate upper olfactory notes. Fruit forward but tight; fruit balanced by a pleasant medium acidity, just enough minerality, and a tannin backbone enough to keep this laid down another few years. Oddly wonderful note of buttered popcorn upon first whiff which remained after first taste, and then as it opens it makes a shift to softer Cote de Beaune-type notes: black cherry, little bit of strawberry, white pepper, violets, hint of oak and vanilla. Looks like it has spent its shelf life standing up at room temperature but it is fine. Showing some aging with some color differentiation at meniscus. Still bright jammy color despite. Long finish is oak and vanilla and moderate pleasant astringency. Really well balanced. I may have found my cellar defender. My first taste of a wine from this producer that I know nothing about other than it is OR not FR. I’m intrigued to say the least. It could stand to lay down another few years but fun now.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2017
• Type Red
• Producer Belle Pente
• Varietal Pinot Noir
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Belle Pente Vineyard
• Country USA
• Region Oregon
• SubRegion Willamette Valley
• Appellation Yamhill-Carlton
• UPC Code 000004304883

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• In Cellars 95 (57%)
• Consumed 71 (43%)

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