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• Burgundy Bill wrote: 91 points

  April 7, 2023 - Gorgeous pale rust color - looks almost like a white wine. A cool spring morning billows from the glass… I get a sense of child like nostalgia from this wine. Light effervescent red fruit with slight hints of cedar and spice with soft tannin and perfectly balanced acidity. The fruit takes center stage, but it is still complex. This wine is focused and pure. I could drink this every day.

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• JohnMcIlwain Likes this wine:

  January 22, 2023 - So, I’ll preface this with the game time field conditions: incoming coastal snowstorm, inauspicious biodynamic calendar, and honestly, I don’t love Trousseau. That said, my friend Kimberly of One Kourt raved about the wine and praised its elegance, balance, and paucity of reduction. All of which was enough to convince me to take a flyer.
  And I’ll tell you, I’m not disappointed, though I believe I may have opened this a bit prematurely.
  The robe is a pellucid ruby. The nose has some of that bedeviling reduction, but the matchstick tire tread recedes quickly with a brief decant. Wild berry, black tea, vine smoke (per Gillman), crushed herbs, and wild raspberry seed dominate that nose with an array of hedge fruit and loamy notes gaining with time in the glass. The palate is racy and seemingly light on the attack with red fruit and bosky bramble flavors swelling to fill out the mid-palate, with a savory lean tannin profile and mouthwatering acidity lending energy and cut. This is decidedly umami and approaching herbaceous, with a swath of spur cherry and raspberry seed juiciness adding freshness and verve on the finish. There’s fine freshness and a touch of phenolic pepperiness that approaches Pineau d’Anuis-esque character. This has just enough brio and vibrancy to make it compelling now, though time for the structural elements to knit with the fruit has me thinking that a couple of years in the cellar may allow things to integrate. And though there are a couple of qualifications in this note, I enjoyed the wine quite a bit and am pleased to have a couple of bottles in reserve. Admirable with roasted mustard chicken, better still with braised Swiss chard, roasted delicata squash, and faro. Light in character, but at the same time displaying plenty of flair. Re-buy for sure.

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• S.Wayne Likes this wine: 90 points

  January 3, 2023 - Pale garnet with some ruby
  Aromatics medium. Sweet raspberry. Strawberry. Subtle earth. Some green stems. No new oak
  Palate has medium body. Acid medium +. Tannins medium, fine grained. Alcohol medium. Raspberry and red cherry, fresh and crunchy.
  Finish has a medium length. Balanced. Great acid and fruit
  Can age, but nice now.

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• ChiBurgDoc Likes this wine: 91 points

  November 25, 2022 - I was excited to try this when I bought it from Arnot and I wish I had bought more. Absolutely crushable

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2021
• Type Red
• Producer Arnot-Roberts
• Varietal Red Blend
• Designation Trousseau Pinot
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation California

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• In Cellars 115 (51%)
• Consumed 109 (49%)

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