Very ripe black and red cherry with baking and wood spice. Enough tannins and acidity to keep this well balanced. Popped and poured, this improved for an hour in glass, seemingly getting longer. Held up better than a bottle of the 2002 opened earlier this summer.
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PnP, this wine was thin and acidic, to the point that I set it aside and opened something else up instead. As a 13 year old new world pinot, I didn't expect it to evolve in a positive way with air, but I was very wrong. This wound up being tart but balanced, invigorating, and delicious.
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These get better. Northern area, Demuth, is home to some great vines. Still a more tart Pinot, with good aromatics and a young affect. Red berries, good acid, hard to imagine that these Adrian Fog wines ever die.
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Drinks like the great Anderson Valley appellation it is, but with some Barbaresco and Amarone mixed in. With the tannic levels, almost like a young Barbaresco.
Finish: 98 seconds!
90/91 pts.
Recommend decant this big hot girl about 3 hrs.
Pair with decent tannic food (Pork roast seared with brown sugar and cooked submerged in Pinot Noir/Valpolicella/Amarone until falling apart.
Showing great now. I would tend to drink up within a couple yrs.
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Enjoyed with mushroom pasta. Light color, hard candy nose, sour cherry taste with some sparkly notes. Pleasant, long finish. Should be over the hill, but isn't. I'll sample the second half tomorrow.
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drank this last night , very nice lots of sour cherries and red fruit .....much alcohol on the nose as well .......very enjoyable.....has come around since last time i tasted it......nice
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These wines continue to disappoint given the RP ratings - I do believe that our tastes differ significantly. Like all of the AF wines we have purchased, the color is a hazy medium garnet - almost muddy looking. After an hour in the decanter then nose was a bit tight with some mossy notes and a bit of red fruit. This is a light bodied wine with flavors of sour cherry, very slight tannins, and a short finish. Perhaps it needs more time but right now this does not show any particular potential -- despite sampling over four hours. We did not find this particularly complex or interesting. At $75/bottle from the winery I would not be enthusiastic about this wine.
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9/9/2017 - Burgundy Al wrote: 88 Points
Very ripe black and red cherry with baking and wood spice. Enough tannins and acidity to keep this well balanced. Popped and poured, this improved for an hour in glass, seemingly getting longer. Held up better than a bottle of the 2002 opened earlier this summer.
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6/3/2016 - alpha_ori Likes this wine: 91 Points
PnP, this wine was thin and acidic, to the point that I set it aside and opened something else up instead. As a 13 year old new world pinot, I didn't expect it to evolve in a positive way with air, but I was very wrong. This wound up being tart but balanced, invigorating, and delicious.
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4/7/2014 - sbbulldog wrote: 91 Points
These get better. Northern area, Demuth, is home to some great vines. Still a more tart Pinot, with good aromatics and a young affect. Red berries, good acid, hard to imagine that these Adrian Fog wines ever die.
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1/4/2013 - CarpeVinoDiem Likes this wine: 90 Points
Perfect provenance (PWSF; auction bottle)
No notes taken.
Decanted 30 mins.
Virtually no sediment (only slight micro).
Cork: Perfect clean painted end flared cork.
Look: Medium orange red with slight brick '03.
Nose taste: Black cherry, spice, musk, lt. alcohol, lt. soap (!), cranberry, rose petal.
Body: 2.5% milk.
Mouth taste: Black cherry, musk, spice, lt. cranberry, lt. vanilla, maple.
BIG BIG tannins on the end.
Drinks like the great Anderson Valley appellation it is, but with some Barbaresco and Amarone mixed in. With the tannic levels, almost like a young Barbaresco.
Finish: 98 seconds!
90/91 pts.
Recommend decant this big hot girl about 3 hrs.
Pair with decent tannic food (Pork roast seared with brown sugar and cooked submerged in Pinot Noir/Valpolicella/Amarone until falling apart.
Showing great now. I would tend to drink up within a couple yrs.
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11/13/2012 - sbbulldog wrote: 90 Points
Enjoyed with mushroom pasta. Light color, hard candy nose, sour cherry taste with some sparkly notes. Pleasant, long finish. Should be over the hill, but isn't. I'll sample the second half tomorrow.
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6/22/2012 - jsebiri wrote:
drank this last night , very nice lots of sour cherries and red fruit .....much alcohol on the nose as well .......very enjoyable.....has come around since last time i tasted it......nice
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12/1/2006 - elliott.h.farber@gmail.com wrote: 87 Points
These wines continue to disappoint given the RP ratings - I do believe that our tastes differ significantly. Like all of the AF wines we have purchased, the color is a hazy medium garnet - almost muddy looking. After an hour in the decanter then nose was a bit tight with some mossy notes and a bit of red fruit. This is a light bodied wine with flavors of sour cherry, very slight tannins, and a short finish. Perhaps it needs more time but right now this does not show any particular potential -- despite sampling over four hours. We did not find this particularly complex or interesting. At $75/bottle from the winery I would not be enthusiastic about this wine.
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