What a tasty wine! Holding up nicely in early '24 with some pleasantly sharp dark notes on top of that smiling, deceptively rich California fruit. I would guess there are still a few years to go. Even nicer to know what great people are and were behind it all.
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Still a wonderfully fresh and complete wine in early 2024. Loads of Anderson Valley character - medium-bright fruit with a hint of earth and that slightly minty pennyroyal. Medium to light palate, but not underpowered at all. Plenty of acid - not always the case with wines of this level from this region - with an almost-long finish, even. Really nice wine.
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Trademark Littorai austerity, but it's worth it when you get this much purity of fruit and site. So much on the nose - just call it clarity, I suppose - every individual smell is identifiable, but comes together in just the most natural expression of Pinot Noir fruit in a Northern California vineyard. Still fruit forward, though quite lean as always, but starting to take on some pleasant secondary characteristics, a hint of dried leaves, maybe even tobacco? Finish is medium length, of a piece with the rest, appropriate to how this wine came out. Really a remarkable achievement and expression of winemaking, even if it doesn't quite grab my heart.
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6/23/2016 7:35:00 PM - It looks like we have similar size wine collections (~600 bottles). Beautiful guitar in the photo! Pacifica is cool (literally). I want to golf at Sharp Park Golf Course sometime this summer when it is blazing hot up here in Davis. Cheers
2016 Sandler Wine Company Pinot Noir Peterson Vineyard
3/11/2024 - LesPaul Likes this wine:
What a tasty wine! Holding up nicely in early '24 with some pleasantly sharp dark notes on top of that smiling, deceptively rich California fruit. I would guess there are still a few years to go. Even nicer to know what great people are and were behind it all.
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2016 Balo Vineyards Pinot Noir
2/15/2024 - LesPaul Likes this wine: 89 Points
Still a wonderfully fresh and complete wine in early 2024. Loads of Anderson Valley character - medium-bright fruit with a hint of earth and that slightly minty pennyroyal. Medium to light palate, but not underpowered at all. Plenty of acid - not always the case with wines of this level from this region - with an almost-long finish, even. Really nice wine.
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2014 Littorai Pinot Noir Cerise Vineyard
2/4/2024 - LesPaul Likes this wine: 89 Points
Trademark Littorai austerity, but it's worth it when you get this much purity of fruit and site. So much on the nose - just call it clarity, I suppose - every individual smell is identifiable, but comes together in just the most natural expression of Pinot Noir fruit in a Northern California vineyard. Still fruit forward, though quite lean as always, but starting to take on some pleasant secondary characteristics, a hint of dried leaves, maybe even tobacco? Finish is medium length, of a piece with the rest, appropriate to how this wine came out. Really a remarkable achievement and expression of winemaking, even if it doesn't quite grab my heart.
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