2010 Winderlea Pinot Noir Dundee Hills Vineyards

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 90.5 points

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  6/5/2016 - JasonG wrote: 89 Points

  Medium brick red with a faint orange shade toward the edges. Drinking at about a year past transition from first phase to second. Nose of dusty clay, hazelnut shells, day old pie crust, mineral oil, and forest strawberries. Initial on taste is extremely soft, pillowy. Layered four berry jam, with restrained acids, but not a bunch of flab and heat. Hints of sticks and Jory on the finish. If you love the gentle nature and endearing subtleties of medium age Burgundy, you'll love this. But I would drink up, it will not improve. Victim of a challenging vintage.

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  1/15/2015 - Ron Felthoven wrote:

  Really disappointing. Upon opening it smelled and tasted like a glass full of graham crackers and jam. But upon tasting it the jam was thin in the mid-palate and tannic and a bit bitter on the end. It's a weird combination of a fat front and a thin ending with no real substance. Such a shame to do this with Dundee Hills fruit. My first time with this producer and I am quite disappointed.

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