CLT Wine Dinner (Mini-LMHB vertical, Aged 20+ yr Napa, and Aged 10+ yr Pinot) (Charlotte, NC): Double decant 90 minutes before serving; Could have used 2 hours or more. Color: Solid and dense coloring of dark blackberry; would have guessed a 3 year old Napa Cabernet on looks alone Nose: Ask someone else because I hate dill and I hate American oak and that overwhelmed anything I could pick up; The aromas integrated hours later but I had given up on the nose of this wine by this point Palate: Big and chewy; Excellent and softening flavors of ripe black raspberry and black cherry with a note of spice. Comparatively simple and more straightforward relative to the 05 Burgundy but no less flavorful. If you like Thomas Rivers Brown you will like this wine. Good thing I like TRB. Finish: Long and flavorful. Good tonight; this wine can easily age another 5+ years with little fear of falling off.
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Dark purple, unusual intense color for Pinot. If you are looking for burgundy like Pinot this won’t be your jam. Huge, concentrated, sweet cherry, chocolate cherry, nice oak and vanilla with tart finish
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Continues to drink beautifully! Lovely dark red cherry and raspberry on the nose and ripe palate with delicious cedar spice notes and acidity on the long finish.
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Drinking very well. Wonderful nose with great blend of youth and maturity. Deep ruby red that sits on the palate well with a hint of velvet. Extremely enjoyable.
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Echo the prior comments, WOW is this in a good place right now! Has put on weight since release and is drinking superbly. Was effusive right out of the bottle so likely at its apogee and will be there for a few more years.
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Consistent with previous notes. This is a big full-bodied style that is clearly pinot, but bears little to no resemblance to Burgundy. Within the style, it is very successful, but do to the sheer size of this wine, I could see it alienating some people. The packaging borders on ridiculous, but it should be a clear indicator of what you are in store for.
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A big pinot that I expected to hate, but it wasn't bad. Hard to drink more than a glass, but this is well made for the style. I'd take this over Kosta Browne.
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Big, fruit forward and unmistakably Californian. It is made in a very bold, voluptuous style that could turn some Burgundy fans off, but if you don't mind the style, this is just flat out delicious. Probably near or at peak, but just on the concentration of fruit, I think this will hang on for several years.
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Dark purple. Beautiful nose of spice, black raspberry, and red candy apple. This did benefit from being opened for one to two hours. Rich layers of strawberry, raspberry, black cherry, spice cake and a finish that does really go on for minutes. Densely packed with flavor. This is a big Pinot , but has great balance to offset the concentration. Youthful. The style is similar to Kosta Brown.
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Opened via Coravin. PNP. Fresh strawberry and red raspberry scented and flavored. Moderate overall intensity. Looking forward to opening it, letting it breath and see where it goes. Drinking very well out of the gate. Large tasting pour. Drank over less than one hour. Marvelous.
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Stunning perfection. No flaws. Minimal sediment. No rim variation. Classic ruby pinot color with some cloudiness as if unfiltered. Classic burgundian nose. Smooth taste with a long finish. Low tannin and acid. Medium alcohol. Paired perfectly with cornmeal-crusted catfish, with cherry tomatoes, parsley, cucumber, and marinated red onion. Creamy potatoes as a side. This is a wonderful pinot ready to drink. Probably approaching peak and plenty of bottle life left.
A good, albeit too large, pinot. Big almost syrupy red fruit. Tasty as hec (it is a crowd pleaser), but a bit too monolithic to have more than a glass or so.
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Lovely floral aromas with red cherry, raspberry, and hint of rhubarb on the palate with delicious spice notes and acidity on the long finish. To my palate at least just edged out an 09 KB SC.
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Big and voluptuous wine that pushes the new world envelope a bit. For its style, it is a very good, delicious wine that stresses ripe fruit over more tertiary notes. This took a few years to round into form, but it is in a very good place right now. This could handle much heartier food that your typical pinot.
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Second Sunday Group: 2000 Bordeaux (R&D's): Ripe and raisiny, bordering on pruny, with cranberry and sour fruit aromas. The palate is no different, with sour fruit and prune flavors. Others seemed to like this more than I, but I couldn't enjoy this.
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Bright candy cherry nose. Light mint. Light tannins but quite a powerful flavor of red berries, tart acidity, earthy, medium to long finish. Slightly disjointed on finish though but a very new world Pinot.
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Big smack of leather, baking spices, cola, hint of kirsch. Noticeable acidity. The wife had trouble picking a flavor out of it...It grew on me as the night went on, and after we ate.
It's been 8 months since I've had this, and with all the wine tasting I've done this year, my palate and rating scale have changed a bit since then. I've moved a bit away from the full big new world style of pinot. So I'm taking this down from my March rating to line up more with my revised scale...it's a good wine, but there's nothing that really jumps out at me, and it's not a very good QPR. I had the $25 Rivers-Marie Sonoma Coast Pinot last night, which I gave a 90, and I do think it's the better wine. Of course both the Aston and the RM are the same winemaker, Thomas Brown. As I noted in my last Aston TN from March, I thought the RM Pinot was more in the Burgundian style, just a nice, subtle, well balanced example of Pinot Noir, while the Aston is just much more new world. I still feel that way about them. If I was going to introduce someone to Pinot Noir, I would reach for the RM over the Aston.
Will improve with a few more years in the cellar, or give this a few hours decant at least.
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- Crimsom color and aromas of raspberry and strawberry. Satin-Like texture with a medium finish - Typical Cali Pinot nose, dark in color with a very smooth silky mouth feel. A terrific Pinot if subtlety is not important. Drinking very well now. Enjoy.
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First of all let me just say: LOL! There is such a division in Pinot camps that clearly come across in the CT scores of this wine. That being said, this wine is dark through and through. Immediately with cola and dark black fruit with a tinge of clove. Big on the palate for a Pinot with a long finish and soft tannins. Personally, I like my Pinots a bit more on the lighter side with bright fruit and a bit more acid. Though not in my wheelhouse, this is a nice wine and a good occasional change from the Pinots I usually drink.
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Very smooth with depth and a classic pinot funk that keeps me from loving the wine. I am a cabernet guy but enjoy adventuring out and I can taste the quality. If you are a Pinot fan this may be a top 10 wine for 09.
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Continuing with 09 Pinot after the last two nights. Trying to get a good CA 09 Pinot baseline here...Still have a glass left of the 09 Kanzler from last night, so a little bit of side by side comparison going on, but of course the Kanzler has been open for a day now.
So the Aston...Out of the cellar at 130pm, decanted at 400pm. Still a little cool from the cellar, but almost room temp. Tasted over the first 30 minutes. A little more purple than the light ruby color Kanzler, but close. Definitely a much bigger style than the Kanzler or Red Car. Not a lot of fruit on the nose, much more earth, oak, spices, cassis, tobacco, butter. That buttery diacetyl taste isn't really in the palate, but I get the aroma on the nose. Big, grippy tannins, but smooth. Not a lot of fruit on that palate either, much more earth and spice tones throughout. But good backbone, and the alcohol is balanced nicely. The Kanzler and Red Car both seemed overly alcoholic at times.
1 hr: Room temp. I think a hint of chocolate and pepper on the palate now too. The buttery nose has faded a bit. Tannins still grip nicely.
2 hrs: This seems pretty stable already...nothing really new jumped out at me.
3 hrs: I was cooking and missed this interval...
4 hrs: With dinner, homemade chicken alfredo. Picked up more fruit, black cherries, when had with the alfredo, which is the most fruit I've tasted in this wine. Tannins seem to have relaxed a bit, but might be the cream and cheese in the alfredo that tones it down. Definitely more of an earthy Pinot, and I think this might be a love it or hate it type of wine. Not the same style as TRB makes at Rivers-Marie.
Just did side by side with some Kanzler. Definitely more fruit in the Kanzler, and it's much different and lighter than the Aston. I have to give the edge to the Aston by just a hair though; it was a bit better right out of the bottle I think, and I like the bigger style.
5 hrs: Again pretty stable, and I did enjoy it with dinner. A big wine...Cab-ish almost.
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Big California pinot. Medium ruby, fresh strawberry aromas, some cola. Big sweet, full mouth feel, but a tinge of heat on the finish. Excellent if you like this style. ****
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I have no official notes on this due to it being served at dinner party, paired well with grilled shrimp & lobster rolls. This wine is simply amazing, even at its young age. I should of bought a case! It's been almost a day since I drank it and i'm still thinking about it.....
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9/3/2021 - rustyRudy Likes this wine: 92 Points
Opened, aired for 3 hours, dark sweet black cherry , tart finish
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8/24/2021 - kevinpatrick Likes this wine:
CLT Wine Dinner (Mini-LMHB vertical, Aged 20+ yr Napa, and Aged 10+ yr Pinot) (Charlotte, NC): Double decant 90 minutes before serving; Could have used 2 hours or more.
Color: Solid and dense coloring of dark blackberry; would have guessed a 3 year old Napa Cabernet on looks alone
Nose: Ask someone else because I hate dill and I hate American oak and that overwhelmed anything I could pick up; The aromas integrated hours later but I had given up on the nose of this wine by this point
Palate: Big and chewy; Excellent and softening flavors of ripe black raspberry and black cherry with a note of spice. Comparatively simple and more straightforward relative to the 05 Burgundy but no less flavorful. If you like Thomas Rivers Brown you will like this wine. Good thing I like TRB.
Finish: Long and flavorful.
Good tonight; this wine can easily age another 5+ years with little fear of falling off.
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7/24/2021 - rustyRudy Likes this wine: 94 Points
Dark purple, unusual intense color for Pinot. If you are looking for burgundy like Pinot this won’t be your jam. Huge, concentrated, sweet cherry, chocolate cherry, nice oak and vanilla with tart finish
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4/19/2021 - pjhr Likes this wine: 94 Points
As delicious and young as the last bottle. Drinking beautifully!
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3/31/2018 - pjhr Likes this wine: 94 Points
Continues to drink beautifully! Lovely dark red cherry and raspberry on the nose and ripe palate with delicious cedar spice notes and acidity on the long finish.
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1/24/2018 - IvanKrazy Likes this wine: 92 Points
Intense, smokey and aromatic. Lots of black fruit with a long lasting finish. Not my style but you have to respect the fruit!
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11/26/2017 - leewines wrote: 93 Points
Drinking very well. Wonderful nose with great blend of youth and maturity. Deep ruby red that sits on the palate well with a hint of velvet. Extremely enjoyable.
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11/12/2017 - CotoDC Likes this wine: 94 Points
Echo the prior comments, WOW is this in a good place right now! Has put on weight since release and is drinking superbly. Was effusive right out of the bottle so likely at its apogee and will be there for a few more years.
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10/21/2017 - JGirl wrote: 93 Points
This Pinot Noir has aged very nicely. Full and smooth.
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9/2/2017 - pjhr Likes this wine: 94 Points
As delicious as the last bottle. Drinking beautifully!
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2/9/2017 - pjhr Likes this wine: 94 Points
Lovely dark red cherry, raspberry, and hint of rhubarb on the nose and ripe palate with delicious spice notes and acidity on the long finish.
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1/21/2017 - JGirl Likes this wine: 94 Points
Tremendously better than it was a couple of years ago. Every sip was savored.
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10/14/2016 - cmcclane wrote: 88 Points
Over the top pinot that isn't very enjoyable with food. Plus all the corks have been dry on the last 3 bottles opened.
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8/11/2016 - pjhr Likes this wine: 94 Points
As delicious as the last bottle. Drinking beautifully!
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5/15/2016 - Seafoam Manor wrote: 93 Points
Consistent with previous notes. This is a big full-bodied style that is clearly pinot, but bears little to no resemblance to Burgundy. Within the style, it is very successful, but do to the sheer size of this wine, I could see it alienating some people. The packaging borders on ridiculous, but it should be a clear indicator of what you are in store for.
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12/24/2015 - Outplaying wrote:
A big pinot that I expected to hate, but it wasn't bad. Hard to drink more than a glass, but this is well made for the style. I'd take this over Kosta Browne.
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11/26/2015 - pjhr Likes this wine: 94 Points
Lovely floral aromas with red cherry, raspberry, and hint of rhubarb on the palate with delicious spice notes and acidity on the long finish.
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11/13/2015 - Seafoam Manor wrote: 93 Points
Big, fruit forward and unmistakably Californian. It is made in a very bold, voluptuous style that could turn some Burgundy fans off, but if you don't mind the style, this is just flat out delicious. Probably near or at peak, but just on the concentration of fruit, I think this will hang on for several years.
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10/14/2015 - ChinonRouge wrote: 89 Points
An ok Pinot but not much more. Poor QPR. At least this time, my wife didn't make a spritzer out of it.
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8/15/2015 - pjhr Likes this wine: 94 Points
As delicious as the last bottle. Drinking beautifully!
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8/13/2015 - rustyRudy Likes this wine: 95 Points
Dark purple. Beautiful nose of spice, black raspberry, and red candy apple. This did benefit from being opened for one to two hours. Rich layers of strawberry, raspberry, black cherry, spice cake and a finish that does really go on for minutes. Densely packed with flavor. This is a big Pinot , but has great balance to offset the concentration. Youthful. The style is similar to Kosta Brown.
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7/23/2015 - rustyRudy Likes this wine: 93 Points
Opened via Coravin. PNP. Fresh strawberry and red raspberry scented and flavored. Moderate overall intensity. Looking forward to opening it, letting it breath and see where it goes. Drinking very well out of the gate. Large tasting pour. Drank over less than one hour. Marvelous.
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7/22/2015 - andrewdodd86 Likes this wine: 95 Points
Sweet strawberry, ethereal, iron fist velvet glove. Love it.
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7/11/2015 - Mark H. LeQuire wrote: 95 Points
Stunning perfection. No flaws. Minimal sediment. No rim variation. Classic ruby pinot color with some cloudiness as if unfiltered. Classic burgundian nose. Smooth taste with a long finish. Low tannin and acid. Medium alcohol. Paired perfectly with cornmeal-crusted catfish, with cherry tomatoes, parsley, cucumber, and marinated red onion. Creamy potatoes as a side. This is a wonderful pinot ready to drink. Probably approaching peak and plenty of bottle life left.
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4/10/2015 - cadamson Likes this wine: 89 Points
A good, albeit too large, pinot. Big almost syrupy red fruit. Tasty as hec (it is a crowd pleaser), but a bit too monolithic to have more than a glass or so.
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3/19/2015 - tgkswine wrote: 90 Points
time to drink up but still holding up well.
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3/19/2015 - tgkswine wrote: 93 Points
excellent, floral, red fruit and in balance. not over the top or overly extracted. the 09 is my favorite of the Aston vintages so far.
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12/25/2014 - pjhr Likes this wine: 94 Points
Lovely floral aromas with red cherry, raspberry, and hint of rhubarb on the palate with delicious spice notes and acidity on the long finish.
To my palate at least just edged out an 09 KB SC.
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11/12/2014 - baslan Likes this wine: 94 Points
Delicious!
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10/18/2014 - Seafoam Manor wrote: 92 Points
Big and voluptuous wine that pushes the new world envelope a bit. For its style, it is a very good, delicious wine that stresses ripe fruit over more tertiary notes. This took a few years to round into form, but it is in a very good place right now. This could handle much heartier food that your typical pinot.
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8/30/2014 - NTR wrote: 93 Points
Bursting strawberry nose. Earthy oaky. Strong cherry flavor. Very full bodied. Little zesty. Decidedly Cali new world Pinot. Very tasty. 93
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4/13/2014 - AllRed wrote:
Second Sunday Group: 2000 Bordeaux (R&D's): Ripe and raisiny, bordering on pruny, with cranberry and sour fruit aromas. The palate is no different, with sour fruit and prune flavors. Others seemed to like this more than I, but I couldn't enjoy this.
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4/3/2014 - pjhr Likes this wine: 93 Points
As delicious as the last bottle with perhaps a touch of heat on the finish.
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2/26/2014 - JDRFoster wrote: 93 Points
Beautiful New World Pinot, layers of dark cherry, red berries, cola, and some flowers.
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11/9/2013 - dlcass Likes this wine: 94 Points
Classic california Pinot; great nose. I would be interesting to see where this will go with more age.
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11/1/2013 - NTR wrote: 92 Points
Bright candy cherry nose. Light mint. Light tannins but quite a powerful flavor of red berries, tart acidity, earthy, medium to long finish. Slightly disjointed on finish though but a very new world Pinot.
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7/29/2013 - pjhr Likes this wine: 94 Points
As delicious as the last bottle.
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6/28/2013 - theharve Likes this wine: 95 Points
this is rite up there with the best reviewed 09 son. coasts.
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4/5/2013 - pjhr Likes this wine: 94 Points
Lovely floral aromas with red cherry, raspberry, and rhubarb on the palate with delicious spice notes on the long finish.
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3/23/2013 - LSussman wrote:
- Crimsom color and has flavours of strawberry.
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2/8/2013 - wineberg Likes this wine: 89 Points
4+ hour decant. Pretty consistent with my last notes, though I get more earthiness this bottle.
Kirsch, cola, pepper, mushrooms/earth tones, some alcohol still in the nose. A really big, riper style of Pinot.
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11/30/2012 - wineberg Likes this wine: 89 Points
Decanted for 3 hours.
Big smack of leather, baking spices, cola, hint of kirsch. Noticeable acidity. The wife had trouble picking a flavor out of it...It grew on me as the night went on, and after we ate.
It's been 8 months since I've had this, and with all the wine tasting I've done this year, my palate and rating scale have changed a bit since then. I've moved a bit away from the full big new world style of pinot. So I'm taking this down from my March rating to line up more with my revised scale...it's a good wine, but there's nothing that really jumps out at me, and it's not a very good QPR. I had the $25 Rivers-Marie Sonoma Coast Pinot last night, which I gave a 90, and I do think it's the better wine. Of course both the Aston and the RM are the same winemaker, Thomas Brown. As I noted in my last Aston TN from March, I thought the RM Pinot was more in the Burgundian style, just a nice, subtle, well balanced example of Pinot Noir, while the Aston is just much more new world. I still feel that way about them. If I was going to introduce someone to Pinot Noir, I would reach for the RM over the Aston.
Will improve with a few more years in the cellar, or give this a few hours decant at least.
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10/25/2012 - LSussman wrote:
- Crimsom color and aromas of raspberry and strawberry. Satin-Like texture with a medium finish - Typical Cali Pinot nose, dark in color with a very smooth silky mouth feel. A terrific Pinot if subtlety is not important. Drinking very well now. Enjoy.
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10/3/2012 - J-Sho wrote: 91 Points
First of all let me just say: LOL! There is such a division in Pinot camps that clearly come across in the CT scores of this wine. That being said, this wine is dark through and through. Immediately with cola and dark black fruit with a tinge of clove. Big on the palate for a Pinot with a long finish and soft tannins. Personally, I like my Pinots a bit more on the lighter side with bright fruit and a bit more acid. Though not in my wheelhouse, this is a nice wine and a good occasional change from the Pinots I usually drink.
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8/13/2012 - andrewdodd86 Likes this wine: 91 Points
Good, not a repeat
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5/25/2012 - ChinonRouge wrote: 90 Points
Muted flavors. Decent, but honestly, not very good value. I prefer Merry Edwards, Williams Seylem, and other Sonoma Pinots over this Aston.
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3/29/2012 - jaxpaj wrote: 94 Points
Very smooth with depth and a classic pinot funk that keeps me from loving the wine. I am a cabernet guy but enjoy adventuring out and I can taste the quality. If you are a Pinot fan this may be a top 10 wine for 09.
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3/26/2012 - drycab wrote:
If this is Pinot Noir, then we don't need Cabernet anymore. I think this gets my point across!
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3/16/2012 - wineberg Likes this wine: 92 Points
Continuing with 09 Pinot after the last two nights. Trying to get a good CA 09 Pinot baseline here...Still have a glass left of the 09 Kanzler from last night, so a little bit of side by side comparison going on, but of course the Kanzler has been open for a day now.
So the Aston...Out of the cellar at 130pm, decanted at 400pm. Still a little cool from the cellar, but almost room temp. Tasted over the first 30 minutes. A little more purple than the light ruby color Kanzler, but close. Definitely a much bigger style than the Kanzler or Red Car. Not a lot of fruit on the nose, much more earth, oak, spices, cassis, tobacco, butter. That buttery diacetyl taste isn't really in the palate, but I get the aroma on the nose. Big, grippy tannins, but smooth. Not a lot of fruit on that palate either, much more earth and spice tones throughout. But good backbone, and the alcohol is balanced nicely. The Kanzler and Red Car both seemed overly alcoholic at times.
1 hr: Room temp. I think a hint of chocolate and pepper on the palate now too. The buttery nose has faded a bit. Tannins still grip nicely.
2 hrs: This seems pretty stable already...nothing really new jumped out at me.
3 hrs: I was cooking and missed this interval...
4 hrs: With dinner, homemade chicken alfredo. Picked up more fruit, black cherries, when had with the alfredo, which is the most fruit I've tasted in this wine. Tannins seem to have relaxed a bit, but might be the cream and cheese in the alfredo that tones it down. Definitely more of an earthy Pinot, and I think this might be a love it or hate it type of wine. Not the same style as TRB makes at Rivers-Marie.
Just did side by side with some Kanzler. Definitely more fruit in the Kanzler, and it's much different and lighter than the Aston. I have to give the edge to the Aston by just a hair though; it was a bit better right out of the bottle I think, and I like the bigger style.
5 hrs: Again pretty stable, and I did enjoy it with dinner. A big wine...Cab-ish almost.
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12/26/2011 - ChinonRouge wrote: 90 Points
Off to a good start.
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12/24/2011 - NH WINO wrote: 97 Points
The best pinot I have ever had!! I don't want to share my last 3 bottles.....
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11/24/2011 - cos65 wrote:
Big California pinot. Medium ruby, fresh strawberry aromas, some cola. Big sweet, full mouth feel, but a tinge of heat on the finish. Excellent if you like this style. ****
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7/23/2011 - buckeye76 wrote: 95 Points
CHERRIES AND SPICE IN THE NOSE AND FLAVOR. COMPLEX PINOT WITH A LONG FINISH.
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6/13/2011 - NH WINO wrote: 96 Points
I have no official notes on this due to it being served at dinner party, paired well with grilled shrimp & lobster rolls. This wine is simply amazing, even at its young age. I should of bought a case! It's been almost a day since I drank it and i'm still thinking about it.....
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