Community Tasting Notes 20

• IWineAlot wrote: 93 points

  November 10, 2012 - Wine Dinner @ fasteddie35's Home (Lake Forest, IL): Drank alongside the '02 Bergstrom Vineyard and '02 Arcus.
  
  Just a gorgeous nose of raspberries, rhubarb, earth and spice notes. Super young. Vosne in style.
  Cherry cola on the palate. Slight mintyness on the midpalate. Long finish.
  This to me was very Burundian in style versus the other two wine we tasted.
  
  SS 93pts

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• Arcturus wrote: 88 points

  August 27, 2012 - To me, this has always been a little too horsey on the nose for a pinot.

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• last chance wrote: 92 points

  May 15, 2010 - 9L party (Woodinville, WA): Tasted blind from magnum (well, almost). This was brown bagged and brought out for us to taste blind. Just a little bit of the burgundy wax around the neck was showing where the bag didn't cover. The guy pouring is a Pinot freak, and the wax color had me thinking Kosta Browne or Bergstrom right from the start. The magnum format made me almost sure it would be Bergstrom. The nose had a very nice Pinot funk on it, and certainly called out OR Pinot. The palate had cherry and plum flavors with a spicy and minty note that also gave clues to whole cluster fermentation. Medium bodied with medium-long finish. Nice OR Pinot, but I really prefer the Shea from Bergstrom over this bottling.

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• bear wrote: 94 points

  September 27, 2009 - One of the best Oregon pinot noirs I have ever had - maybe the best. This wine is drinking perfectly right now but I sense that it still could be great for years to come. There was a solid backbone to this wine that hints of the possibility of incredible longevity. This is a medium+ bodied pinot noir with terrific length on the finish, nothing missing in mid-palate, great fruit (red with enough black to get all of our attention). Why didn't I buy a lot more of this when we were at the winery? At the time, it seemed like a lot of money and was the only wine we tasted that day that really caught our attention. Today, I would happily pay twice or more for this wine. Spectacular.

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• CMCLR wrote: 87 points

  July 14, 2009 - A little heavy-handed for a pinot.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2002
• Type Red
• Producer Bergström
• Varietal Pinot Noir
• Designation Cumberland Reserve
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region Oregon
• SubRegion Willamette Valley
• Appellation Willamette Valley

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