Prior bottle was 4 years ago and this wine showed stunningly well. Black and red cherry, blackberry, earth and minerals on a very pretty nose. Just a bit above medium bodied with very open, accessible and expressive red cherry upfront, backed with deeper black cherry and brighter blackberry through the middle. Mid-body remains the standout with beautiful fruit and perhaps even better balance. The entire tone was one of elegance, nuance and silkiness. Supported with fine grained tannins, acidity, tart notes of both red and black cherry and lingering mineral qualities. This wine should show well for some time to come and I'll certainly buy more if I come across it.
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Rich dark red. Blackberries and dark ripe cherries dominate on the note, then raspberry reveals itself on the palate, on a substrate of forest floor and mushroom. Tannins mature and nicely integrated. This feels like it is near its peak although I suspect there are some good years ahead.
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Medium dark red color. Split bottle over 3 hours. This was simply marvelous; it has everything I look for in Oregon pinot noir. As this sat in glass it didn't take very long to really get into high gear, maybe 15 or 20 minutes. What a fantastic perfume on the nose; deeply earthy with gorgeous red raspberries and strawberries mixed with rose petals that builds even more over time revealing a wonderful array of spices, sauvage, fungi and orange peel notes. The palate is very silky with impressive depth and clarity. This balances the essence of earth, forest floor and fungal notes with the brightness of the deep red berries while being intense, yet entirely refined and feminine. Ultimately it is simply sublime. The sauvage comes through clearly on the palate too adding notes of pencil lead, spices, black raspberry and blood. This is the kind of wine I can just sit and smell all night reveling in the gorgeous aromas. A classic and complete wine. My last note in 2016 said to give this 2 years. Well, the time has served it very, very well as the evolution is impressive. Drink or Hold.
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From notes earlier this year: "Bright ruby-red. Complex nose of black raspberry, asian spice, floral/rose notes. Expressive palate, cranberry (?), cherry-cola, dark berries, spice. Spices continue to show through mid palate."
This really wowed the crowd. Like prior bottles this wine has great energy. It continued to improve in the glass. Classic Oregon red fruit profile. Great first wine with rack of lamb. WOTN for probably half the crew
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Pop and pour, consumed over 3 hours. Nose: Medium-plus intensity, black cherry, cranberry, smoke, and cola. Palate: Medium bodied, good balance, slightly creamy mouth-feel, dark red fruit - black cherry and cranberry - attack, spice driven mid-palate lift, earth and rusty iron notes join in the back-end. Finish: Medium-plus length dominated by sweet & tart dark red fruit, spice, and rusty earth.
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Bright ruby-red. Complex nose of black raspberry, asian spice, floral/rose notes. Expressive palate, cranberry (?), cherry-cola, dark berries, spice. Spices continue to show through mid palate.
Focused and energetic wine, in a really good spot right now. WOTN for several at the table...
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Two bottles. Complex nose and body of cherry, raspberry, strawberry, spice, cinnamon and some smoke. Good structure and balance. Drinking at its apogee; maybe a year or two left. Score 93-94. Consumed on Veterans Day in memory of LCDR Larry “Mike” Jordan, a fellow U.S. Navy serviceman during the Vietnam War. Mike was returning to the USS Kitty Hawk from the Philippines when his aircraft, a KA3B aerial tanker, was purportedly shot down on April 12, 1966. His name is listed on The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, PANEL 6E LINE 106.
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Decanted one hour. Initially a little hesitant, but then exploded out of the glass. Beautiful fruit and acidic balance. Drank beautifully for three hours. Second day was a big drop off. Ready to drink.
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Black cherry, black raspberry, spices and floral notes combine for a very pretty and aromatic nose. A bit above medium bodied (13.2% ABV) with bright, acidity-backed black cherry upfront, with hints of red cherry sprinkled in, adding complexity. Mid-body is fantastic: beautiful fruit, but with depth, plushness and an overall elegance that lasts and lasts. Back end into the finish shows additional tartness, a few more red berry and tart red cherry notes, integrated spices and balanced tannins. The Ken Wright Tanager and the Big Table Farms Resonance showed extremely well, but this was the clear winner. Has the structure and the concentration to potentially even improve a touch more and it has a few more years ahead of it, but I would think over the next three years is where this wine will be enjoyed the most.
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Coravin; G20; 4*+8*+4.5+8.5+9+5+5=94+; velvet red color with red-orange edge in the glass; more fruit than the Ceras, especially high austere red fruit, but both have a nutty-sheep-cheese low note; very lively and fresh, smooth mouthfeel; vanilla at the front of the palate with a long raspberry linger that is like a steady drip of delicious fresh red berry; very long, smooth, balanced finish with a lean toward juicy acidity; will be very long lived!
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North Shore Weekend; 9/22/2016-9/24/2016 (North Shore, MN): Very dark red color. PNP, drank 1+ glass on day 1 and 1+ glass on day 2. This was still a bit wrapped up on day one. The nose was smoky and woodsy with lots of spice and a gorgeous forest floor note. The palate was fim and showed brooding black fruits and brisk tannins. Day two found this rounding up considerably. The palate saw the tannins ease up and soften and the fruit become more focused and brighter, still dark with some sauvage and animal notes. Medium length, still fairly dry. This is still quite young and I'd give this another 2 years ideally.
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Has a little earth initially, but berry notes with mostly cherry on the nose. Great wine that opens up after an hour. Definitely hang on to this one a bit
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Consumed over 3 days (vacuvined), note from day 3. Nose: Medium expressiveness, pine needles, blueberry, cherry, lavender, and hints of cinnamon and earth. Palate: Medium-full bodied, sweet blue fruit and spice attack, definite mid-palate persistence, and great front to back harmony - no rough edges here. Finish: Lengthy sense of sweet blue fruit and acidic driven pine needle flavors. This held up remarkably well over 3 days, speaks volumes to what Maggie is doing here at Antica Terra.
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Disappointing, to say the least. Previous vintages were big plush wines. The 2011, however, is thin and seriously lacking in anything memorable. At $75, this is not a good value.
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Pine forest floor and mostly red fruits on the nose. Medium body and well balanced leaning more fruit than anything else and easy to consume. Just wasn't overly interesting sadly to me. At the price I wanted/expected more. Could be too young but I don't think there is much spine to this for 5 more years...maybe 2-3. Perhaps I'm just too used to CA pinot....
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(From magnum) Very much a style of a vosne romanee. Perhaps a lean year in Oregon lends to this sytle as there were green notes and red fruits which again, could fool the table toward a french wine. Followed with a full fruit mid-palate and some earthy notes. Very fine Oregon wine and perhaps it is worth looking into less lush growing years for classic style examples.
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Burgundian nose- would have been fooled in a blind. A pleasantly restained palate that offered a bevy of interesting notes- a good mix of red and black fruit ( Oregon signature flavors peeking through) and earthen tones. Started more robust and after a lot of air time ( 8-12 hours), thinned out a little with some green notes. I recco drinking in a pop and pour fashion. Good result overall.
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Afghanistan Greg Dinner with the Crew (Wildfire Chicago): Dinner at Wildfire for Afghanistan Greg with Johnny, Chris, Sylvia and Nicole. Nicole brought this. Tasted this side by side the Peter Michael Moulin Rouge 2011. While the Peter Michael may have won that battle, the Botanica put up quite a fight. Lovely mineral driven dark qualities compared to the Peter Michael. Dark earthy blackberries and dark cherries, some nice smoke and a fair dose of earth. Less pepper and spice and more earth earth. A little less aromatic as a whole too but this was mineral city by the end of the meal. Dark rock and touches of game. Palate is long and well extracted but still lively with good acidity. More mineral notes on the back end. Clean finish. Excellent and highly recommended.
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Consumed over 2 days (vacuvined), note from day 2. Nose: Medium-plus expressiveness, dark red fruit - cranberry and black cherry, pine needles, and dark flowers in the background. Palate: Medium bodied, good balance, spicy red fruit attack, solid acid backbone, a little smokiness thru the mid-palate, flavors build in intensity thru the back-end. Finish is lengthy and complex - spicy red fruit, pine needles, smokiness, mineral presence, and cigar tobacco.
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Wonderful nose of ripe strawberries and raspberries entice you to drink away. It's fairly hefty for a pinot noir but its tannins and alcohol level isn't aggressive enough to keep me away from this wine. One of more pleasurable pinot noir from US.
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Willamette Valley Pinot Flight (SF Wine Trading Company): Medium ruby. Bacony nose. Bigger wine, obvious wood at the base. Strange combination of lush feel, subdued fruit, and a dry back end with astringent wood tannins. No sense of delicacy whatsoever and too dressed up in its oak clothes.
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While a large portion is from Shea with a bit of AT and Old School Vineyard, darker red fruits, savory almost beef stocky minerality, and hints of earth and herbs I would have guessed Eola Amity. On the nose floral and savory elements. Still a bit astringent with tannin and acid given the size and power comes across as a bit extracted and gives it that white pepper feel while remaining light to medium bodied and light in color. Even though this is the bigger of the AT releases and more friendly, it still needs time from such a cool vintage. Unfortunately lacking in delicacy. A bit brutish with the oak.
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As lovely as during last tasting, the 2011 Botanic reveals a dense but perfectly clean fruit. This wine is a perfect example of skillful winemaking with low alchol levels but a massive yet elegant and refined impression. The nose is full of minerals, flowers, wet forest floor, subtle saddle leather and a coole feeling. The palate follows through in an elegant way with a perfect integration. The balance, acidity and youth all speak with one voice: The 2001 Botanic needs a couple of years - or more - of beauty sleep. There is absolutely no heat, neither tannins to be found. A stunning wine.
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Interesting showing for this bottle. At first sip this was interesting, yet after minutes, it recoiled into a shell shocked state. I came back about 30 min later and it had already blossomed.
Complex nose of red fruits, tea, thyme, white flowers, and jasmine. Light in the mouth with a slightly sappy quality to the fruit. A crushed shell like minerality in the mouth. A wine that makes you think. Lacking some acid, but not flabby. I have no doubt that this will be fantastic in some years time, but worth a look now if you're unsure what AT is all about.
While this was good, I much prefer the ceras as this point.
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First, I have to say that Antica Terra has the most beautiful labels on the market. I had heard that the '11 was much lighter than the previous vintages, especially the amazing '08. It is a touch lighter, and more delicate, but it is still an amazingly well balanced wine and it does need more shelf time. To me, AT wines are a step higher than anything in Oregon.
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BYO - US wines (Skovridderkroen): Impressive and complex nose with red currants, buttermilk, dirt, violets. Quite expressive. Strawberry, dirt and coffee flavors dominate the elegant palate. Delicious and juicy wine but still with a good structure and balance.
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A true masterpiece and a star in the making, the 2011 Botanica is a bit restrained tonight. Tones of fresh herbs, thyme, sage and white flowers. This is a very elegant effort with complexity lurking around the corner: wet saddle leather, wet deciduous forest floor. The palate is brilliant with expressive tannins and acidity. The balance is very nice and the wine provides an overall impression of being meticulously crafted - but in need of more time to settle and gain complexity. Brilliant!
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Nice garnet color. Beautiful aromatics. More fruit forward than the Ceras, showing ripe blue fruit. Light on its feet with a great mouth feel! The type of wine that would pair up well with food, but delightful just by itself!
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Popped 1.5 hours before first pour, consumed over 4 hours. Nose: Medium plus expressiveness, black cherry, pine needles, dark flowers, earth and smoke - very intriguing. Palate: Medium bodied, great mouth feel and balance, cherry, blueberry, and cream with spice kick and enough acid to keep the sweetness in check, builds in intensity thru the mid-palate and ends with a deliciousness that lingers on and on. I've only experienced about a dozen other Willamette pinots and this is unlike any I've ever had - in a seriously good way. It's big and you definitely notice the wood treatment, but it is all in balance - I'm impressed.
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Very nice with great structure and an unexpected amount of spice. This wine did a great job of combining fruit with structure...a blending of new world and old world.
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Pinot in the City (City Winery, Chicago, IL): Oh my goodness. One of the wines of the day. So supple and elegant. Soft and young. Racy fig Newtons mixed with dark currants and some white pepper. Long well structured palate. Needs some time on its side. Really killer juice.
Taste: Medium bodied with medium/high acidity and some nice and silky tannins. The feel is very pretty with tones of rhubarb, spices, mineral rich earth, and red cherries.
Overall: This is a very young an precocious Pinot. There is very good depth on both the nose and palate with a real freshness to it as well.
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6/19/2022 - RGCM Gananda Likes this wine: 94 Points
Prior bottle was 4 years ago and this wine showed stunningly well. Black and red cherry, blackberry, earth and minerals on a very pretty nose. Just a bit above medium bodied with very open, accessible and expressive red cherry upfront, backed with deeper black cherry and brighter blackberry through the middle. Mid-body remains the standout with beautiful fruit and perhaps even better balance. The entire tone was one of elegance, nuance and silkiness. Supported with fine grained tannins, acidity, tart notes of both red and black cherry and lingering mineral qualities. This wine should show well for some time to come and I'll certainly buy more if I come across it.
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2/20/2021 - Jlinfield Likes this wine: 92 Points
Rich dark red. Blackberries and dark ripe cherries dominate on the note, then raspberry reveals itself on the palate, on a substrate of forest floor and mushroom. Tannins mature and nicely integrated. This feels like it is near its peak although I suspect there are some good years ahead.
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10/17/2020 - rocknroller wrote: 95 Points
Medium dark red color. Split bottle over 3 hours. This was simply marvelous; it has everything I look for in Oregon pinot noir. As this sat in glass it didn't take very long to really get into high gear, maybe 15 or 20 minutes. What a fantastic perfume on the nose; deeply earthy with gorgeous red raspberries and strawberries mixed with rose petals that builds even more over time revealing a wonderful array of spices, sauvage, fungi and orange peel notes. The palate is very silky with impressive depth and clarity. This balances the essence of earth, forest floor and fungal notes with the brightness of the deep red berries while being intense, yet entirely refined and feminine. Ultimately it is simply sublime. The sauvage comes through clearly on the palate too adding notes of pencil lead, spices, black raspberry and blood. This is the kind of wine I can just sit and smell all night reveling in the gorgeous aromas. A classic and complete wine. My last note in 2016 said to give this 2 years. Well, the time has served it very, very well as the evolution is impressive. Drink or Hold.
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10/17/2020 - walkerjfw wrote: 93 Points
"The Beat Goes On" another great socially distanced dinner, this one hosted by Andrea and David w/ Joe/Wendy/Harry/Anne/Bill/Ashley (Chez Silverstein): From magnum, first red of the evening. Opened and decanted, rebottled about 2 hours prior.
From notes earlier this year: "Bright ruby-red. Complex nose of black raspberry, asian spice, floral/rose notes. Expressive palate, cranberry (?), cherry-cola, dark berries, spice. Spices continue to show through mid palate."
This really wowed the crowd. Like prior bottles this wine has great energy. It continued to improve in the glass. Classic Oregon red fruit profile. Great first wine with rack of lamb. WOTN for probably half the crew
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7/15/2020 - prasm Likes this wine: 92 Points
Pop and pour, consumed over 3 hours. Nose: Medium-plus intensity, black cherry, cranberry, smoke, and cola. Palate: Medium bodied, good balance, slightly creamy mouth-feel, dark red fruit - black cherry and cranberry - attack, spice driven mid-palate lift, earth and rusty iron notes join in the back-end. Finish: Medium-plus length dominated by sweet & tart dark red fruit, spice, and rusty earth.
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2/21/2020 - walkerjfw wrote: 93 Points
Final dinner of PNV week - "mostly non Cab" palate rinse, great lineup...Brooke runs the show! (Ad Hoc, Yountville CA): From magnum bought at release. One of my contributions.
Bright ruby-red. Complex nose of black raspberry, asian spice, floral/rose notes. Expressive palate, cranberry (?), cherry-cola, dark berries, spice. Spices continue to show through mid palate.
Focused and energetic wine, in a really good spot right now. WOTN for several at the table...
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11/11/2019 - Chainthroer wrote: 93 Points
Two bottles. Complex nose and body of cherry, raspberry, strawberry, spice, cinnamon and some smoke. Good structure and balance. Drinking at its apogee; maybe a year or two left. Score 93-94. Consumed on Veterans Day in memory of LCDR Larry “Mike” Jordan, a fellow U.S. Navy serviceman during the Vietnam War. Mike was returning to the USS Kitty Hawk from the Philippines when his aircraft, a KA3B aerial tanker, was purportedly shot down on April 12, 1966. His name is listed on The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, PANEL 6E LINE 106.
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1/18/2019 - Deadhead wrote: 94 Points
Amazing wine. Beautiful. Well balanced.
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9/6/2018 - hawkeye54 wrote: 94 Points
Decanted one hour. Initially a little hesitant, but then exploded out of the glass. Beautiful fruit and acidic balance. Drank beautifully for three hours. Second day was a big drop off. Ready to drink.
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6/17/2018 - RGCM Gananda Likes this wine: 94 Points
Black cherry, black raspberry, spices and floral notes combine for a very pretty and aromatic nose. A bit above medium bodied (13.2% ABV) with bright, acidity-backed black cherry upfront, with hints of red cherry sprinkled in, adding complexity. Mid-body is fantastic: beautiful fruit, but with depth, plushness and an overall elegance that lasts and lasts. Back end into the finish shows additional tartness, a few more red berry and tart red cherry notes, integrated spices and balanced tannins. The Ken Wright Tanager and the Big Table Farms Resonance showed extremely well, but this was the clear winner. Has the structure and the concentration to potentially even improve a touch more and it has a few more years ahead of it, but I would think over the next three years is where this wine will be enjoyed the most.
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5/15/2017 - SMZ wrote: 90 Points
Getting better with age but faded on the second night
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3/8/2017 - SMZ wrote: 91 Points
Considerably better than the last bottle....much more flavorful and balanced.
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2/18/2017 - learningandenjoying Likes this wine: 94 Points
Coravin; G20; 4*+8*+4.5+8.5+9+5+5=94+; velvet red color with red-orange edge in the glass; more fruit than the Ceras, especially high austere red fruit, but both have a nutty-sheep-cheese low note; very lively and fresh, smooth mouthfeel; vanilla at the front of the palate with a long raspberry linger that is like a steady drip of delicious fresh red berry; very long, smooth, balanced finish with a lean toward juicy acidity; will be very long lived!
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9/23/2016 - rocknroller wrote: 92 Points
North Shore Weekend; 9/22/2016-9/24/2016 (North Shore, MN): Very dark red color. PNP, drank 1+ glass on day 1 and 1+ glass on day 2. This was still a bit wrapped up on day one. The nose was smoky and woodsy with lots of spice and a gorgeous forest floor note. The palate was fim and showed brooding black fruits and brisk tannins. Day two found this rounding up considerably. The palate saw the tannins ease up and soften and the fruit become more focused and brighter, still dark with some sauvage and animal notes. Medium length, still fairly dry. This is still quite young and I'd give this another 2 years ideally.
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9/22/2016 - JR512 Likes this wine: 92 Points
Very good Oregon pinot with oily nose/taste. Not my favorite but clearly burgundian style.
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7/8/2016 - hawkeye54 wrote: 90 Points
PNP. Nose was open. Palate was not. Drank over four hours and it didn't budge much at all. Seems like the stuffing is there, just needs more time.
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3/25/2016 - celo4life wrote: 93 Points
Has a little earth initially, but berry notes with mostly cherry on the nose. Great wine that opens up after an hour. Definitely hang on to this one a bit
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11/29/2015 - prasm Likes this wine: 93 Points
Consumed over 3 days (vacuvined), note from day 3. Nose: Medium expressiveness, pine needles, blueberry, cherry, lavender, and hints of cinnamon and earth. Palate: Medium-full bodied, sweet blue fruit and spice attack, definite mid-palate persistence, and great front to back harmony - no rough edges here. Finish: Lengthy sense of sweet blue fruit and acidic driven pine needle flavors. This held up remarkably well over 3 days, speaks volumes to what Maggie is doing here at Antica Terra.
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7/5/2015 - peternelson wrote: 91 Points
Akatora: Light ruby red, translucent; delicate, floral, light, and elegant. Really enjoyed this.
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6/10/2015 - SMZ wrote: 88 Points
Disappointing, to say the least. Previous vintages were big plush wines. The 2011, however, is thin and seriously lacking in anything memorable. At $75, this is not a good value.
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3/8/2015 - Isalasdad Likes this wine: 93 Points
An amazing wine. Cherry, strawberry, mineral and floral notes. Light bodied and very balanced.
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3/8/2015 - Jbird73 wrote: 91 Points
Pine forest floor and mostly red fruits on the nose. Medium body and well balanced leaning more fruit than anything else and easy to consume. Just wasn't overly interesting sadly to me. At the price I wanted/expected more. Could be too young but I don't think there is much spine to this for 5 more years...maybe 2-3. Perhaps I'm just too used to CA pinot....
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11/29/2014 - ledwards wrote: 93 Points
(From magnum) Very much a style of a vosne romanee. Perhaps a lean year in Oregon lends to this sytle as there were green notes and red fruits which again, could fool the table toward a french wine. Followed with a full fruit mid-palate and some earthy notes. Very fine Oregon wine and perhaps it is worth looking into less lush growing years for classic style examples.
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8/22/2014 - ledwards wrote: 91 Points
Burgundian nose- would have been fooled in a blind. A pleasantly restained palate that offered a bevy of interesting notes- a good mix of red and black fruit ( Oregon signature flavors peeking through) and earthen tones. Started more robust and after a lot of air time ( 8-12 hours), thinned out a little with some green notes. I recco drinking in a pop and pour fashion. Good result overall.
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8/16/2014 - beezer6 wrote: 93 Points
Afghanistan Greg Dinner with the Crew (Wildfire Chicago): Dinner at Wildfire for Afghanistan Greg with Johnny, Chris, Sylvia and Nicole. Nicole brought this.
Tasted this side by side the Peter Michael Moulin Rouge 2011. While the Peter Michael may have won that battle, the Botanica put up quite a fight.
Lovely mineral driven dark qualities compared to the Peter Michael. Dark earthy blackberries and dark cherries, some nice smoke and a fair dose of earth.
Less pepper and spice and more earth earth. A little less aromatic as a whole too but this was mineral city by the end of the meal. Dark rock and touches of game.
Palate is long and well extracted but still lively with good acidity. More mineral notes on the back end. Clean finish. Excellent and highly recommended.
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8/9/2014 - rocknroller wrote: 93 Points
Annual Wine Group Summer Event (Siggy & Jenny's Place, Mpls, MN): One of my favorites of the night. I didn't take any notes, but it was showing well with another year of bottle age. Classy stuff. 92+ to 93pts.
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6/14/2014 - prasm Likes this wine: 92 Points
Consumed over 2 days (vacuvined), note from day 2. Nose: Medium-plus expressiveness, dark red fruit - cranberry and black cherry, pine needles, and dark flowers in the background. Palate: Medium bodied, good balance, spicy red fruit attack, solid acid backbone, a little smokiness thru the mid-palate, flavors build in intensity thru the back-end. Finish is lengthy and complex - spicy red fruit, pine needles, smokiness, mineral presence, and cigar tobacco.
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2/16/2014 - jinatnrt Likes this wine: 92 Points
Wonderful nose of ripe strawberries and raspberries entice you to drink away. It's fairly hefty for a pinot noir but its tannins and alcohol level isn't aggressive enough to keep me away from this wine. One of more pleasurable pinot noir from US.
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1/18/2014 - drwine2001 wrote:
Willamette Valley Pinot Flight (SF Wine Trading Company): Medium ruby. Bacony nose. Bigger wine, obvious wood at the base. Strange combination of lush feel, subdued fruit, and a dry back end with astringent wood tannins. No sense of delicacy whatsoever and too dressed up in its oak clothes.
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11/17/2013 - yossarian.livez wrote: 88 Points
While a large portion is from Shea with a bit of AT and Old School Vineyard, darker red fruits, savory almost beef stocky minerality, and hints of earth and herbs I would have guessed Eola Amity. On the nose floral and savory elements. Still a bit astringent with tannin and acid given the size and power comes across as a bit extracted and gives it that white pepper feel while remaining light to medium bodied and light in color. Even though this is the bigger of the AT releases and more friendly, it still needs time from such a cool vintage. Unfortunately lacking in delicacy. A bit brutish with the oak.
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11/14/2013 - Christoffer78 Likes this wine: 95 Points
As lovely as during last tasting, the 2011 Botanic reveals a dense but perfectly clean fruit. This wine is a perfect example of skillful winemaking with low alchol levels but a massive yet elegant and refined impression. The nose is full of minerals, flowers, wet forest floor, subtle saddle leather and a coole feeling. The palate follows through in an elegant way with a perfect integration. The balance, acidity and youth all speak with one voice: The 2001 Botanic needs a couple of years - or more - of beauty sleep. There is absolutely no heat, neither tannins to be found. A stunning wine.
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10/29/2013 - etherscreen wrote: 93 Points
Interesting showing for this bottle. At first sip this was interesting, yet after minutes, it recoiled into a shell shocked state. I came back about 30 min later and it had already blossomed.
Complex nose of red fruits, tea, thyme, white flowers, and jasmine. Light in the mouth with a slightly sappy quality to the fruit. A crushed shell like minerality in the mouth. A wine that makes you think. Lacking some acid, but not flabby. I have no doubt that this will be fantastic in some years time, but worth a look now if you're unsure what AT is all about.
While this was good, I much prefer the ceras as this point.
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10/19/2013 - jhieb Likes this wine: 93 Points
First, I have to say that Antica Terra has the most beautiful labels on the market. I had heard that the '11 was much lighter than the previous vintages, especially the amazing '08. It is a touch lighter, and more delicate, but it is still an amazingly well balanced wine and it does need more shelf time. To me, AT wines are a step higher than anything in Oregon.
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9/28/2013 - canan wrote: 94 Points
BYO - US wines (Skovridderkroen): Impressive and complex nose with red currants, buttermilk, dirt, violets. Quite expressive.
Strawberry, dirt and coffee flavors dominate the elegant palate. Delicious and juicy wine but still with a good structure and balance.
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7/31/2013 - rocknroller wrote: 93 Points
Willamette Valley Oregon Trip 4 & 1/2 Days; 7/29/2013-8/4/2013 (Willamette Valley, Oregon): A wow wine, this really impresses, intense on the palate and the nose, deeply layered, minerals, black cherry, earthy, floral, the palate is elegant and caressing. Very long finish. And this is just a baby, who knows where this might go...
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6/11/2013 - Christoffer78 Likes this wine: 95 Points
A true masterpiece and a star in the making, the 2011 Botanica is a bit restrained tonight. Tones of fresh herbs, thyme, sage and white flowers. This is a very elegant effort with complexity lurking around the corner: wet saddle leather, wet deciduous forest floor. The palate is brilliant with expressive tannins and acidity. The balance is very nice and the wine provides an overall impression of being meticulously crafted - but in need of more time to settle and gain complexity. Brilliant!
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5/11/2013 - kwn70 Likes this wine: 93 Points
Nice garnet color. Beautiful aromatics. More fruit forward than the Ceras, showing ripe blue fruit. Light on its feet with a great mouth feel! The type of wine that would pair up well with food, but delightful just by itself!
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4/26/2013 - prasm Likes this wine: 93 Points
Popped 1.5 hours before first pour, consumed over 4 hours. Nose: Medium plus expressiveness, black cherry, pine needles, dark flowers, earth and smoke - very intriguing. Palate: Medium bodied, great mouth feel and balance, cherry, blueberry, and cream with spice kick and enough acid to keep the sweetness in check, builds in intensity thru the mid-palate and ends with a deliciousness that lingers on and on. I've only experienced about a dozen other Willamette pinots and this is unlike any I've ever had - in a seriously good way. It's big and you definitely notice the wood treatment, but it is all in balance - I'm impressed.
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4/14/2013 - TwoSmoochies wrote: 92 Points
Very nice with great structure and an unexpected amount of spice. This wine did a great job of combining fruit with structure...a blending of new world and old world.
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3/7/2013 - beezer6 wrote: 94 Points
Pinot in the City (City Winery, Chicago, IL): Oh my goodness. One of the wines of the day. So supple and elegant. Soft and young. Racy fig Newtons mixed with dark currants and some white pepper.
Long well structured palate. Needs some time on its side. Really killer juice.
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3/7/2013 - KeithAkers wrote: 92 Points
Willamette Valley Wines presents: Pinot in the City (City Winery, Chicago, IL): Nose: Pretty and aromatic nose with tones of rhubarb, spices, mineral rich earth tones, red cherries, and some bits of florals.
Taste: Medium bodied with medium/high acidity and some nice and silky tannins. The feel is very pretty with tones of rhubarb, spices, mineral rich earth, and red cherries.
Overall: This is a very young an precocious Pinot. There is very good depth on both the nose and palate with a real freshness to it as well.
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