2014 St. Innocent Pinot Noir Temperance Hill Vineyard
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UpfromtheCellar wrote:
89 Points
Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - Short finish. That's its problem. On the nose its all fruits and spice. On the palate its all fruits and spice. On the finish its all .......... ???
Easy drinking at 6 years and it should be entering its prime. But what's with the non-existent finish? Maybe its bottle variation (other reviewers rave about the finish)? Lovely nose, delightful initial attack, fades into the mid-palate and totally disappears into the finish.
Crying here for what I've missed. I'm as big a Mark fan as the next guy but this is not 94 or 93 territory as many of his earlier reviewers score this. It was just an above average O-noir for a below average O-noir price tag.
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Comment posted by HandmadeHomemade:
5/21/2020 6:33:00 AM - Did you decant? I have found that his younger wines benefit greatly from a few hours in the decanter. Also, the 14's were built like brick shit houses IMO, so I wouldn't be surprised if they are shut down at the moment.
Comment posted by UpfromtheCellar:
5/28/2020 3:42:00 PM - Hand... you were totally spot on. I opened the Villages Cuvee from the same year a week or so later and it was much more open. I should have waited on the Temperance Hill.
Comment posted by HandmadeHomemade:
5/28/2020 8:23:00 PM - Thanks! Glad you found a happy medium!