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• AllRed wrote: 93 points

  March 22, 2024 - Our penultimate bottle, served double blind to our dinner companions. Light color suggests it is older. Quite floral and elegant with aromas of rose petal, cherry, lavender and crushed mint. Slightly warmer fruit on the palate, with more of a cherry and raspberry compote quality along with a soft but noticeable vein of acidity. Picks up an orange peel quality as it sits, along with a subtle earthy note. There's a subtle sulfur note that blows off after a few minutes. This had been gently double decanted off its sediment about an hour earlier, and it held up nicely over another 3-4 hours. Many guesses for Burgundy. WOTN for a couple of folks. I'll plan to open our final bottle sometime next year.

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• Omar Khayyam Likes this wine: 93 points

  January 2, 2024 - This was a magnum, my last and I probably opened it years too early.
  Opened and not decanted we let it air for 3 hours before pouring about half of the bottle in the glasses and started drinking it. At first very sour, and with tulip stems up to the hilt. Then after another 5 hours the bottle half empty it really started to shine. Now the beautiful red fruit comes through and there is more of dark cherries and a little cola nut sweetness and tang that is integrated.
  
  Wish we had treated this differently, but all in all it was a brilliant wine in the end so don't get to nervous around your Thomas Pinots is the lesson, hold out and let the funk air out.

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• glou.sf Likes this wine: 93 points

  November 14, 2023 - Pretty nose with cherries and spices that is still surprisingly primary. Good acidity on the palate with more red cherries, raspberries, underwood, and juicy fruit. Nice finish. It's only showing a hint of age at this point. A great wine that should continue to age beautifully. I'd wait another 5-10 years. 93+

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• rocknroller wrote: 91 points

  July 29, 2023 - IPNC Weekend 2023; 7/26/2023-7/31/2023: Small glass. Salmon bake. Thomas mini vertical. This was nice, but losing some of the fruit, still some red berries, dry earth, potpourri, spices. Was expecting more from the '05.

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• *Vine* wrote:

  June 26, 2023 - Popped and poured, exploded cork (should have used the Durand - doh!). Initially green and tertiary, quickly transitions towards pronounced aromas of sappy, sous bois-laden cherry/cherry cola red fruits and exotic spices. Medium body, balanced acidity. On the palate, where to even begin...just a kaleidoscope of red fruits and black fruits, complemented by impressions of stark minerals (almost saline), big league chew bubblegum and a menagerie of exotic vegetal notes. Surprisingly chunky tannins carry through the lingering close. Just an absolutely fascinating Pinot, simultaneously scrumptious and complex yet surprisingly youthful as well...that said, clearly seems to be reaching an apogee in terms of overall deliciousness so probably best to consider drinking over the near term.
  
  Quick commentary: A winery-reconditioned bottle of the 1996 Eyrie South Block Reserve is the only OR Pinot Noir I've had that's truly better than this one

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2005
• Type Red
• Producer Thomas
• Varietal Pinot Noir
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region Oregon
• SubRegion Willamette Valley
• Appellation Dundee Hills

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• In Cellars 518 (45%)
• Consumed 633 (55%)

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