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• misterstarre Likes this wine: 100 points

  November 11, 2023 - Here it is folks, my first three digit CT score. Not from my beloved Bordeaux. Not an ancient Barolo or an obscenely priced Burg. Hat's off to the dearly departed Chris Whitcraft. I've had this wine two other times. Once flawed and once really good, but not like this. This was one of eight bottles among world class selections, and it ran away with it as WOTN. Hands down the unanimous ass kicker. There were two head-spinning aromas this night: white truffles fresh from Alba and this Whitcraft. This has a head-filling perfume, sweat, sweetness, game, earth, and spice was sexy. I parked my nose in the bowl and breathed. Wow. OK, so details: the nose hits -- HITS -- you in the face with herbacious stem that underlies the aromas and tastes here, inflecting each sip with a stemmy, textured musty herb action. Then come the florals. Pretty rose and lilac notes that get overtaken by fruit and spice. Bing cherry brings acid to this transparant, light textured silky, lifted wine, but there's some roasted strawberry darkening it up, and orange oil on the high end of the register mixing it up with cranberry. Then there's an element of beach tar bringing this thing into completely dynamic territory. The spice is less pronounced and creeps in at the end and then slips away leaving you at the finish the same place where you started -- those funky stems. The sex in a glass thing is a tired cliche. But I'll commit literary sin for this wine. Great sex in a glass.

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• misterstarre Likes this wine: 96 points

  December 21, 2022 - This ‘97 Whitcraft N Block slayed. Fruit. Acid. Age. It lead with roasted strawberry and dark plum, had loads of beach tar and chaparral, spearmint, and grilled blood orange. Feral, herbal, and sexy.

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• misterstarre wrote: flawed

  April 10, 2021 - Beautiful light red, translucent color. TCA on the nose - bummer. Palate seemed unaffected, as I'm not all that sensitive to TCA. There was strawberry, cherry, potpourri, and sage. I'd give this a 92, but I'll give a better note on another bottle that has no flaws.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1997
• Type Red
• Producer Whitcraft Winery
• Varietal Pinot Noir
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Bien Nacido Vineyard N Block
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Central Coast
• Appellation Santa Maria Valley

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• In Cellars 5 (45%)
• Consumed 6 (55%)

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