Community Tasting Notes 90

• sirpat00 wrote: 94 points

  April 13, 2024 - Sour cherry fruit with light and sweet red accents, sweet spice, meaty and herbal complexity. Juicy palate with a defined sour cherry fruit, but also adding darker features. Nice balance and a slightly spicy finish as an extra. The 2019 keeps delivering with remarkable consistency.

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• mcflytfc Likes this wine: 93 points

  April 5, 2024 - Natural cork, light ruby in the glass. Bright red fruits on the nose. Tart cherry and strawberry flavours. Quite a bit of acidity. Tannins are still noticeable.
  Good QPR, will improve and integrate nicely over the next five years.

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• mwneil wrote: 87 points

  March 7, 2024 - This bottle never clicked, bitter finish which have been related to pea shoots we ate, not much bouquet, fruit was subdued, drank with blackened salmon, paprika potatoes and pea shoots - maybe not the best pairing, drank ok but still disappointing, last bottle, on to other bottlings.

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• hkbob Likes this wine: 90 points

  March 3, 2024 - Subdued nose of strawberry, pomegranate, red cherry and sous-bois notes with some background sweetness. A lighter-bodied frame with pronounced acidity, gradually opening up over a couple of hours to develop a creamier palate profile. Medium finish. I was left wanting - for me, this wine was like a plane taxiing down the runway but never quite achieving lift-off. A glass poured on day 2 had taken a step backward. My score reflects the best part of its drinking window.

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• BaroloBucky Likes this wine: 94 points

  February 29, 2024 - Another 2019 stunner. Is this the best Willamette Valley vintage ever? I think so. Vibrant red berry, mushroom and earth on the nose. Same on the palate with loads of lively fresh cherry and cranberry, and some light herbal accent. Lots of acid and enough tannin to lay it down at least 5 more years and let those earthy notes come out more. Everything is in harmony bringing together the pop of new world fruit with the grace of old world restraint. The finish is long. It’s lean, elegant, and very classy. Drink now - roughly 2029.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2019
• Type Red
• Producer Domaine Drouhin Oregon
• Varietal Pinot Noir
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region Oregon
• SubRegion Willamette Valley
• Appellation Dundee Hills
• UPC Code 012086860218

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• Pending Delivery 27 (1%)
• In Cellars 2,944 (59%)
• Consumed 1,997 (40%)

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