2009 Kistler Pinot Noir Cuvée Elizabeth Bodega Headlands

Community Tasting Notes (36) Avg Score: 94.2 points

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  1/22/2024 - pjhr Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Drinking as beautifully as it did over 4 years ago!

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  6/18/2023 - buckeye76 Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Similar notes as previous tasting. Ruby red color. Black raspberries, black cherries and floral in the nose. Flavor like the nose with hints of minerality. A complex wine with nice structure, well balanced and a long smooth finish.

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  5/31/2023 - Benoit Hardy Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Intense nose of morello cherry, medicinal herbs and cedar.
  
  The palate has a silky attack, on a bright fruit with a nice freshness. Pinot Noir is easily recognizable. Then the characteristic maturity of California arrives in the second wave, it is rich, intense, but still slender thanks to a beautiful acid frame. Well-integrated light woodiness. It is balanced, elegant, but intense at the same time. Big finish where maturity is expressed on an exuberant register, in a “high density” way over a long length.
  
  Excellent Pinot Noir, more in line with European standards than the Sine Qua Non that I drank 2 years ago with an exceptional concentration for the grape variety.

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  5/23/2022 - Ex-Ray Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Dark garnet, nearly opaque. Moderate complex aromas of black raspberries and black cherries, with sweet herbal notes. Wonderful full-bodied, rich, but round, smooth and balanced red and dark fruit flavors without significant tannin; excellent balancing acidity, slightly hot on the late palate and aftertaste. Drink now and over the next 1-2 years.
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  12/23/2021 - Ex-Ray Likes this wine: 97 Points

  One of the best American pinots I've had, now fully mature. Dark garnet, nearly opaque, with the slightest amber edge. Powerful complex aromas of black raspberries and black cherries, with sweet herbal notes, opened nicely over several hours. Wonderful full-bodied, rich, but round, smooth and balanced red and dark fruit flavors without significant tannin; excellent balancing acidity, slightly hot on the late palate and aftertaste. Reminds me of some of the older Dujacs we used to buy and loved. Drink now and enjoy!
  Ric

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