This has aged pretty gracefully, despite a cork that was half-saturated. Dark ruby color, youthful, with a pretty nose of raspberry and sour cherry. Has a healthy dollop of acidity, with tart cranberry flavors and a bit of smoke on the back end. I was first introduced to Lazy Creek by my sister more than two decades ago when she lived in California. At the time, I was becoming enamored with AV wines, and thought they were a quality producer, offering good value, that flew under the radar. It's nice to see that their wines can age well too.
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An outstanding wine. Developing aromas of cherry, nutmeg, americano coffee, hints of toffee, and wet earth. Palate is balanced with a creamy mouthfeel, slightly rustic tannins, black raspberries, and a bit of leather. Finish is long-but-just-a-bit-light while remaining beautiful. Outstanding wine.
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Needs more time in the bottle. Developed nicely with bright fruit and good acidity. Firm tannins on finish. This is more complex than the 2004 - tried side by side. It continued to develop over three hours and probably has another 5 years left.
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This bottle seemed vastly improved over the last one that I had. Delicate, earthy burgundian style. Delicious. still needs to be decanted, still drinking very young.
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Brought to a friends to do a small blind tasting. This was the preferred wine by the majority of the group...nice with some herbal aeromatics, tart acidity, and bright red fruits along a light-medium bodied wine.
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THIS is the wine I remember. It shows a lovely ruby with a faint violet hue in the glass. On the nose there are scents of earth, cinnamon "red hots", freshly crushed granite, strawberries, and ripe red raspberries. In the mouth the acidity is still the prevalent component that leads into sour cherries and wild strawberries followed by a light hint of oak. The structure, fruit, acid, and tannin are all there...they just seem to need another year or two...so I'm guessing I'll be cracking open the last 750ml I have of this around 2012.
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This was not blowing me away yet. I let this decant for about an hour, and was still blowing off the alcohol. The floavor profile was subtle. It seemed to be in an in between stage. I trust that this will develop in the next few years
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A strong nose of oak and alcohol, followed by...pipe tobacco, black cherries, cinnamon, and brown sugar. This is an intense nose...but the alcohol is far more dominant than I remembered at the winery...In the mouth the bracing acidity takes hold and rolls out a fruit roll-up like flavor of strawberry, cherry, and the nose falls back onto scents of blueberry and blackberry. It's a very nice wine....but it's not what I remember...maybe because it's a375ml or maybe this is just too young still. I'll give it another year or more before I attack the next half bottle.
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4/21/2021 - GrapeScott wrote: 89 Points
This has aged pretty gracefully, despite a cork that was half-saturated. Dark ruby color, youthful, with a pretty nose of raspberry and sour cherry. Has a healthy dollop of acidity, with tart cranberry flavors and a bit of smoke on the back end. I was first introduced to Lazy Creek by my sister more than two decades ago when she lived in California. At the time, I was becoming enamored with AV wines, and thought they were a quality producer, offering good value, that flew under the radar. It's nice to see that their wines can age well too.
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7/25/2014 - Lobonick Likes this wine: 91 Points
An outstanding wine. Developing aromas of cherry, nutmeg, americano coffee, hints of toffee, and wet earth. Palate is balanced with a creamy mouthfeel, slightly rustic tannins, black raspberries, and a bit of leather. Finish is long-but-just-a-bit-light while remaining beautiful. Outstanding wine.
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11/25/2011 - mcubed wrote: 91 Points
Burgundian. Light fruit on the palate, balanced with a bit of spice on the edge. Not a long finish.
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3/19/2011 - aaronwine wrote: 91 Points
Needs more time in the bottle. Developed nicely with bright fruit and good acidity. Firm tannins on finish. This is more complex than the 2004 - tried side by side. It continued to develop over three hours and probably has another 5 years left.
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1/28/2011 - jdkru wrote: 91 Points
This bottle seemed vastly improved over the last one that I had. Delicate, earthy burgundian style. Delicious. still needs to be decanted, still drinking very young.
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11/29/2010 - Kirk Grant wrote: 90 Points
Brought to a friends to do a small blind tasting. This was the preferred wine by the majority of the group...nice with some herbal aeromatics, tart acidity, and bright red fruits along a light-medium bodied wine.
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8/14/2009 - Lobonick wrote: 90 Points
Steven Tanzer hit it on the nose.
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4/19/2009 - Kirk Grant wrote: 90 Points
THIS is the wine I remember. It shows a lovely ruby with a faint violet hue in the glass. On the nose there are scents of earth, cinnamon "red hots", freshly crushed granite, strawberries, and ripe red raspberries. In the mouth the acidity is still the prevalent component that leads into sour cherries and wild strawberries followed by a light hint of oak. The structure, fruit, acid, and tannin are all there...they just seem to need another year or two...so I'm guessing I'll be cracking open the last 750ml I have of this around 2012.
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4/4/2009 - jdkru wrote: 89 Points
This was not blowing me away yet. I let this decant for about an hour, and was still blowing off the alcohol. The floavor profile was subtle. It seemed to be in an in between stage. I trust that this will develop in the next few years
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2/26/2008 - Kirk Grant wrote: 87 Points
A strong nose of oak and alcohol, followed by...pipe tobacco, black cherries, cinnamon, and brown sugar. This is an intense nose...but the alcohol is far more dominant than I remembered at the winery...In the mouth the bracing acidity takes hold and rolls out a fruit roll-up like flavor of strawberry, cherry, and the nose falls back onto scents of blueberry and blackberry. It's a very nice wine....but it's not what I remember...maybe because it's a375ml or maybe this is just too young still. I'll give it another year or more before I attack the next half bottle.
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9/11/2007 - yeastbeast wrote: 86 Points
Tasted at winery. Very young, Burgundian-style pinot, currently too raw and tannic to savor. Give it five years.
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