A light innocuous wine, pinot character, pleasant enough while nibbling on ... crackers? Fully ready to drink. No good reason to buy it unless it's on sale at BevMo and you are going to a picnic.
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A surprisingly dark wine (flashlight for decanting barely showed through) almost port like--was port-like with the massive sediment crusted to the bottle bottom. No hints of bricking, tannins resolved, lovely nose of dark fruit and a melange of cola, plum, earth and other flavors I loved but couldn't put names to. Full in the mouth from onset to the long finish. More aromatic as it sat in the glass--the wine did not air in the decanter long enough. Seems like a fair amount of tertiary flavor development still lies ahead, but: storage, storage, storage. This bottle has been in a temp. controlled environment since purchase. Simply delicious, outstanding; what we hope for in a mature Bordeaux. A star of the vintage.
2/9/2019 Sadly, I agree with 'Wine on the Vine.' I was hoping for a repeat of the 2012--which is still drinking gorgeously from well-stored bottles. Wine is a bit hot and lacking the wonderful perfume and complexity of the '12. It does improve in the glass, so maybe a couple of years in the bottle would raise the score. ($38, by the way, is a lot to pay. I'm buying it locally (SF Bay Area) for $26.)
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2019 Donovan-Parke Pinot Noir
7/16/2023 - mpenzi divai wrote: 80 Points
A light innocuous wine, pinot character, pleasant enough while nibbling on ... crackers? Fully ready to drink. No good reason to buy it unless it's on sale at BevMo and you are going to a picnic.
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2002 Château Pichon-Longueville Baron
8/27/2022 - mpenzi divai Likes this wine: 94 Points
A surprisingly dark wine (flashlight for decanting barely showed through) almost port like--was port-like with the massive sediment crusted to the bottle bottom. No hints of bricking, tannins resolved, lovely nose of dark fruit and a melange of cola, plum, earth and other flavors I loved but couldn't put names to. Full in the mouth from onset to the long finish. More aromatic as it sat in the glass--the wine did not air in the decanter long enough. Seems like a fair amount of tertiary flavor development still lies ahead, but: storage, storage, storage. This bottle has been in a temp. controlled environment since purchase. Simply delicious, outstanding; what we hope for in a mature Bordeaux. A star of the vintage.
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2014 Scherrer Winery Pinot Noir Sonoma County
2/9/2019 - mpenzi divai wrote: 88 Points
2/9/2019 Sadly, I agree with 'Wine on the Vine.' I was hoping for a repeat of the 2012--which is still drinking gorgeously from well-stored bottles. Wine is a bit hot and lacking the wonderful perfume and complexity of the '12. It does improve in the glass, so maybe a couple of years in the bottle would raise the score. ($38, by the way, is a lot to pay. I'm buying it locally (SF Bay Area) for $26.)
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