2012 Gros Ventre Pinot Noir Cerise Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 91.5 points

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  5/10/2022 - russ.cook Likes this wine: 93 Points

  This is the first time we've had the pleasure of drinking a relatively mature Gros Ventre pinot, and it was a real stunner. Cherries, smoked meat, asphalt, and crushed violets on the nose and palatte, with lingering spice notes on the finish. Medium+ body with good acidity and well-integrated tannins. Still assertive enough to cut through smoked pork ribs and grilled artichoke. Really a fantastic food wine.

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  10/21/2020 - VoVo Likes this wine: 93 Points

  The 2012 Cerise Vineyard Pinot Noir from Gros Ventre is everything you could hope for in a California Pinot Noir IF you appreciate complexity, subtlety, and a wine that expresses its character in the glass over a long meal. The fruit and earthiness are well balanced by now, making for a truly glorious drinking experience. The cherry flavor is still strong in the finish, but there is enough minerality and earth underneath that one appreciates the complexity from start to finish. It probably has a couple more years left on it.

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  12/7/2019 - Cmainardi wrote: 90 Points

  Drink up

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  7/18/2018 - Cmainardi wrote: 89 Points

  I agree with previous note. On opening it was very fruit forward with bright cherry but with time, tannins and earth notes came forward with darker fruits prevailing. All in all, a very enjoyable wine albeit lacking complexity,

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  1/2/2017 - RGCM Gananda Likes this wine: 92 Points

  All blackfruit on the nose (strong black raspberry, black cherry, blackberry) along with vanilla and earth. Between medium and full bodied and while accessible upon opening, really calmed down from the strongly fruit forward start and by three hours open had started to come together quite well. Black raspberry upfront, but well mixed with black cherry, some deeper blackfruit notes behind and then tart red fruit (main cherry) comes in to balance. The finishing tartness and the tannin-based structure do an excellent job of balancing the fruit through the middle and into and through the finish. This is yet another example of a wine that may initially be fruit-forward, but is worth holding onto as it will become so much more. If drinking now, it needs to be open about two hours ahead or you'll miss too much of what makes this wine special. Still has some time to go before peak and I have no worries about this fading. I plan to buy some more and wouldn't open again until early 2018.

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