500 ml bottle. Baking spice and red cherry aromas, nicely mature. Similar flavors, slightly more advanced, with moderately firm tannins on finish. These were better a few years back, so certainly time to drink up,
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I haven't revisited this wine in 3 or 4 years, and it is still holding up well in these odd little 500 ml bottles. Still fresh red cherry on nose with a slight cola hints and some earth background notes. Same red cherry on palate, modest spice, but an ever-so-slightly bitter hint on finish.
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Medium maroon color, with noticable bricking on rim. the legs are thin but slow. The nose is strong! Hot asphalt, turning over a pile of week-old grass clippings, sweat, rootbeer, iodine and wet iron. The initial palate is tart, tangy burnt rubber. The iron & iodine carry through with white pepper on the mid-palate. The same complexity in the nose isn't as evident on the palate. But, everything mellows and warms nicely on the finish, which has wonderful length. There's a fecundity and life energy to this bottle that evokes images of buxom farm women harvesting fruit on a drowsy, warm summer day. Cue Beethoven's 6th symphony Pastoral, or the final movement of the 9th full volume and look to the sun as it slowly sets on the horizon... That's livin'!
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still young and quite tannic--and this was a 500 ml bottle. it's an excellent wine if you want to drink a pinot masquerading as a cab . . . enough said. in it's favor i will say that it has none of the sappy-syrupy nonsense one finds in so many overcooked pinots. and it has decent complexity. still, for me, it's not even close to the equal of some much more humbly priced pinots from france, e.g., the 2007 Domaine D'Antugnac Cote Pierre Lys (which I'm drinking as I write this, recalling the glass of Antica Terra i consumed last night0
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Just want to add from my previous note that I had a magnum of 2002. May account for it showing so well, but regardless I thought it far from done. I have a couple 500ml bottles from the same vintage and will try one to see if the format is making a big difference.
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Another good bottle. Glinty dark ruby color. Nose of fresh ocean air, black cherries, licorice, and damp earth. Lip-smackingly good on the palate with blackberry, cherry, and sappy dark plum fruit, nicely offset by fine-grained tannins and refreshing acidity. Moderate and harmonious finish. Dynamite with grilled Alaskan sockeye. Coming into its own after being tightly wrapped for months.
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Finally, a decent bottle! And a very good bottle it was. Opened and poured into a glass to aerate for an hour. Dark ruby hue. Nose of iodine, sea air, blackberry compote. Lush and seamlessly textured on the palate, with blackberry, licorice, and cinnamon flavors galore. Acidity was just right, and tannins were pliant and grippy. Long, very seductive finish. Wow, back to the guessing game with the next bottle.
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No change since last bottle. This is a dense, fun pinot. Complex nose, with dark red fruit in addition to secondary aromas which include forest floor, mushrooms, and as mentioned in a previous TN, sandlewood. Fresh, crisp and dry on the palate. I noticed no intrusive oak mentioned by others.
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This is a dense, fun pinot. Complex nose, with dark red fruit in addition to secondary aromas which include forest floor, mushrooms, and as mentioned in a previous TN, sandlewood. Fresh, crisp and dry on the palate. I noticed no intrusive oak mentioned by others. I like this wine.
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Agree with many of the previous tasting notes. Beautiful color and still youthful. Definite aromas of barnyard, mushrooms, earth, with floral and red fruit notes beginning to show through after about 30 minutes in the glass. Nice structure, sharp focused dark cherry fruit, a bit of a short finish. Will wait a couple of years on the next bottle.
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Blind Pinot at the Corsi's: Tasted Blind. Dark color. Violets and floral aromas. Cranberries and Cherries. On the Palate Oak early and Oak often. The only thing keeping this down. Dark Dusty fruit, nice and intense grip throught and some nice tannins waving through. If oak resolves/integrates -- this is going higher 90+ Upon reveal I was surprised with this. Dont remember the Oak being so prominent and the nose seemed more floral. Revisited later and Oak did seem more resolved... tacked on a point or 2 (91-92). This is good and unique. Group's Wine of the Flight
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Lots of Barnyard Aromas. Upon opening this has a palate of extremes. Extreme Dark Pinot fruit, then some real Funk on the mid palate leading into intense mouth gripping and drying tannins. With time these elements integrate. Very intense and intresting expression. In the 500ml format -- this should continue to evolve and improve.
Day2. Had half a glass left in the 500ml bottle--simple recork and left on the counter. Lots of air and room temp. This is really an interesting wine. On the nose, Distinct smell of Roasted Shitake Pot stickers, and Soy sauce. With more time some Framboise. Nice reduced fruits on the palate and a lingering mushroom/earthy finish. 91-92+ today. this seems headed upward.
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Deep reddish purple. Slightly reduced, high toned nose with scents of cranberry, cloves, mushrooms, violets and earth. Fresh and vibrant on the palate with good concentration of red fruit and spice flavors. Finishes with some slightly dry tannins. This grew oakier and drier as it opened.
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Dark ruby. Nose refreshing, giving off blueberry and mountain flower scents. Still quite powerful on the palate but beginning to moderate a bit, with blueberry, blackberry, and forest floor elements plus the beginning of a lovely, complex midpalate. Finish long. I am consuming my case much too quickly.
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Dark ruby. Big, bold nose, with horse poop this time, although with lots of swirling one gets blue- and blackberry infusion. Fruit is apparent but palate is more extracted in this bottle, which remains full-bodied and in-your-face. A bit less primary at this stage.
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Dark ruby. Nose again big and potent, with scents of violets and blueberries. Palate full-bodied and chock full of black cherry, blackberry, and a bit of liqueur. Slightly mellower than the last time. Same luscious finnish, same grip. Got to leave the rest of the stash alone!
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Dark ruby. Immediately upon opening the nose was fat and powerful, giving off scents of plums, blackberry, fertilizer, and asphalt. The palate was big-boned also, but precise. Lots of black cherry and plums with a fair amount of extraction, but not syrah-like at all. Tannins very present, seemingly well-integrated and fine-grained. Finish long. One gets the impression this has all the parts needed to be quite outstanding but just needs time. I look forward to observing how it integrates over the next few years.
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I am not a huge Oregon pinot drinker but was curious about this offering and so picked up a few bottles. Opened a 500cc bottle this evening. Deep ruby with purple hue. Nose muted right out of the bottle, but became more aromatic after an hour or two in glass. Aromas of subtle pepper, cherry and cedar. Powerful flavors that mimic the nose without much sweetness. I found the finish somewhat green. Perhaps this is just the tannic bite that this young wine still has. The tannins did integrate a little more later in the evening. Overall an very good wine.
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Drank with Brandon at lunch (Campagne.) I liked this wine quite a bit. Obviously needs more time as Jon suggested, but this wine was delivering. Nose of fresh cherries and flowers but not overly revealing. Nice fruit, complexity, hints of cedar, long finish bringing much tannins.
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Bright strawberry on the nose. Palate shows the same along with a bit of Rainier cherry. Crisp acidity helps give this some lift and length. Still some oak and tannin to integrate, so hold this to 2006 or later.
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10/30/2016 - Burgundy Al wrote: 88 Points
500 ml bottle. Baking spice and red cherry aromas, nicely mature. Similar flavors, slightly more advanced, with moderately firm tannins on finish. These were better a few years back, so certainly time to drink up,
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8/7/2012 - Burgundy Al wrote: 89 Points
I haven't revisited this wine in 3 or 4 years, and it is still holding up well in these odd little 500 ml bottles. Still fresh red cherry on nose with a slight cola hints and some earth background notes. Same red cherry on palate, modest spice, but an ever-so-slightly bitter hint on finish.
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5/29/2010 - oldgrowth45 wrote: 91 Points
Medium maroon color, with noticable bricking on rim. the legs are thin but slow. The nose is strong! Hot asphalt, turning over a pile of week-old grass clippings, sweat, rootbeer, iodine and wet iron.
The initial palate is tart, tangy burnt rubber. The iron & iodine carry through with white pepper on the mid-palate. The same complexity in the nose isn't as evident on the palate. But, everything mellows and warms nicely on the finish, which has wonderful length. There's a fecundity and life energy to this bottle that evokes images of buxom farm women harvesting fruit on a drowsy, warm summer day. Cue Beethoven's 6th symphony Pastoral, or the final movement of the 9th full volume and look to the sun as it slowly sets on the horizon... That's livin'!
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4/19/2010 - jmh st louis wrote: 88 Points
gentle flavors of red cherry and graphite on a lite finish.
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7/2/2009 - cse wrote: 87 Points
still young and quite tannic--and this was a 500 ml bottle. it's an excellent wine if you want to drink a pinot masquerading as a cab . . . enough said. in it's favor i will say that it has none of the sappy-syrupy nonsense one finds in so many overcooked pinots. and it has decent complexity. still, for me, it's not even close to the equal of some much more humbly priced pinots from france, e.g., the 2007 Domaine D'Antugnac Cote Pierre Lys (which I'm drinking as I write this, recalling the glass of Antica Terra i consumed last night0
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4/15/2009 - sparkling vouvray wrote:
Just want to add from my previous note that I had a magnum of 2002. May account for it showing so well, but regardless I thought it far from done. I have a couple 500ml bottles from the same vintage and will try one to see if the format is making a big difference.
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12/28/2008 - EricBe wrote: 87 Points
Better than other bottles I've had of this. Drink now, though.
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11/28/2008 - DougLee wrote:
Just okay.
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11/10/2008 - DougLee wrote: flawed
mort
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11/10/2008 - DougLee wrote: flawed
dead
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10/27/2008 - sparkling vouvray wrote:
Drinking great. Very tasty.
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8/2/2008 - EricBe wrote: 82 Points
Going...
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7/21/2008 - DougLee wrote: 91 Points
Another good bottle. Glinty dark ruby color. Nose of fresh ocean air, black cherries, licorice, and damp earth. Lip-smackingly good on the palate with blackberry, cherry, and sappy dark plum fruit, nicely offset by fine-grained tannins and refreshing acidity. Moderate and harmonious finish. Dynamite with grilled Alaskan sockeye. Coming into its own after being tightly wrapped for months.
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5/5/2008 - DougLee wrote: 92 Points
Finally, a decent bottle! And a very good bottle it was. Opened and poured into a glass to aerate for an hour. Dark ruby hue. Nose of iodine, sea air, blackberry compote. Lush and seamlessly textured on the palate, with blackberry, licorice, and cinnamon flavors galore. Acidity was just right, and tannins were pliant and grippy. Long, very seductive finish. Wow, back to the guessing game with the next bottle.
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4/12/2008 - DougLee wrote: 86 Points
totally shut down
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3/27/2008 - EricBe wrote: 83 Points
I think this may be on its last legs.
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3/22/2008 - DougLee wrote: 87 Points
Unfortunately, rather dilute in regards to both nose and palate. Wait another year before trying again.
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11/4/2007 - EricBe wrote: 88 Points
A bit hot, but otherwise nice.
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9/22/2007 - WST wrote: 90 Points
No change since last bottle. This is a dense, fun pinot. Complex nose, with dark red fruit in addition to secondary aromas which include forest floor, mushrooms, and as mentioned in a previous TN, sandlewood. Fresh, crisp and dry on the palate. I noticed no intrusive oak mentioned by others.
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9/3/2007 - WST wrote: 90 Points
This is a dense, fun pinot. Complex nose, with dark red fruit in addition to secondary aromas which include forest floor, mushrooms, and as mentioned in a previous TN, sandlewood. Fresh, crisp and dry on the palate. I noticed no intrusive oak mentioned by others. I like this wine.
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8/15/2007 - zinslurpie wrote:
Agree with many of the previous tasting notes. Beautiful color and still youthful. Definite aromas of barnyard, mushrooms, earth, with floral and red fruit notes beginning to show through after about 30 minutes in the glass. Nice structure, sharp focused dark cherry fruit, a bit of a short finish. Will wait a couple of years on the next bottle.
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11/10/2006 - chefee1 wrote: 85 Points
Dark. Nose of sandlewood, spice, oak cha and earth. Hard and structured on he palate. Has fruit but is dominated today by hard tannins
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10/29/2006 - lorenzo wrote: 90 Points
Blind Pinot at the Corsi's: Tasted Blind.
Dark color. Violets and floral aromas. Cranberries and Cherries. On the Palate Oak early and Oak often. The only thing keeping this down. Dark Dusty fruit, nice and intense grip throught and some nice tannins waving through. If oak resolves/integrates -- this is going higher 90+
Upon reveal I was surprised with this. Dont remember the Oak being so prominent and the nose seemed more floral. Revisited later and Oak did seem more resolved... tacked on a point or 2 (91-92). This is good and unique. Group's Wine of the Flight
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10/24/2006 - lorenzo wrote: 90 Points
Lots of Barnyard Aromas. Upon opening this has a palate of extremes. Extreme Dark Pinot fruit, then some real Funk on the mid palate leading into intense mouth gripping and drying tannins. With time these elements integrate. Very intense and intresting expression. In the 500ml format -- this should continue to evolve and improve.
Day2. Had half a glass left in the 500ml bottle--simple recork and left on the counter. Lots of air and room temp. This is really an interesting wine. On the nose, Distinct smell of Roasted Shitake Pot stickers, and Soy sauce. With more time some Framboise. Nice reduced fruits on the palate and a lingering mushroom/earthy finish. 91-92+ today. this seems headed upward.
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4/3/2006 - chefee1 wrote: 88 Points
Deep reddish purple. Slightly reduced, high toned nose with scents of cranberry, cloves, mushrooms, violets and earth. Fresh and vibrant on the palate with good concentration of red fruit and spice flavors. Finishes with some slightly dry tannins. This grew oakier and drier as it opened.
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8/15/2005 - DougLee wrote: 91 Points
Dark ruby. Nose refreshing, giving off blueberry and mountain flower scents. Still quite powerful on the palate but beginning to moderate a bit, with blueberry, blackberry, and forest floor elements plus the beginning of a lovely, complex midpalate. Finish long. I am consuming my case much too quickly.
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7/9/2005 - DougLee wrote: 90 Points
Dark ruby. Big, bold nose, with horse poop this time, although with lots of swirling one gets blue- and blackberry infusion. Fruit is apparent but palate is more extracted in this bottle, which remains full-bodied and in-your-face. A bit less primary at this stage.
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6/25/2005 - DougLee wrote: 91 Points
Dark ruby. Nose again big and potent, with scents of violets and blueberries. Palate full-bodied and chock full of black cherry, blackberry, and a bit of liqueur. Slightly mellower than the last time. Same luscious finnish, same grip. Got to leave the rest of the stash alone!
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6/12/2005 - DougLee wrote: 91 Points
Dark ruby. Immediately upon opening the nose was fat and powerful, giving off scents of plums, blackberry, fertilizer, and asphalt. The palate was big-boned also, but precise. Lots of black cherry and plums with a fair amount of extraction, but not syrah-like at all. Tannins very present, seemingly well-integrated and fine-grained. Finish long. One gets the impression this has all the parts needed to be quite outstanding but just needs time. I look forward to observing how it integrates over the next few years.
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10/28/2004 - Wusman wrote: 89 Points
I am not a huge Oregon pinot drinker but was curious about this offering and so picked up a few bottles. Opened a 500cc bottle this evening. Deep ruby with purple hue. Nose muted right out of the bottle, but became more aromatic after an hour or two in glass. Aromas of subtle pepper, cherry and cedar. Powerful flavors that mimic the nose without much sweetness. I found the finish somewhat green. Perhaps this is just the tannic bite that this young wine still has. The tannins did integrate a little more later in the evening. Overall an very good wine.
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9/26/2004 - lorenzo wrote:
Drank with Brandon at lunch (Campagne.)
I liked this wine quite a bit.
Obviously needs more time as Jon suggested,
but this wine was delivering. Nose of fresh cherries and flowers but not overly revealing.
Nice fruit, complexity, hints of cedar, long finish bringing much tannins.
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8/25/2004 - Burgundy Al wrote: 90 Points
Bright strawberry on the nose. Palate shows the same along with a bit of Rainier cherry. Crisp acidity helps give this some lift and length. Still some oak and tannin to integrate, so hold this to 2006 or later.
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