2012 Bouchard Finlayson Pinot Noir Galpin Peak

Community Tasting Notes (19) Avg Score: 90.0 points

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  1/21/2023 - cch1966 Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Dark Pinot with orange rim. Ripe red fruit, black currant and smoke. Warm climate wine with high alcohol.

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  9/13/2020 - foyfrcs Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Light/medium ruby.
  Red fruits, pepper nose.
  Not as impressed as I was in 2017 and I think this needs to be drunk up.

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  8/16/2018 - IvanLi Likes this wine: 92 Points

  This wine is the closest thing to Burgundy among all the NW Pinot Noirs that I have tried.
  Stylistically resembles a Vosne-Romanee with it's red cherry, spice, earth and tea-like scents.
  On the quality scale it falls right in between a Village and a 1er Cru from a good producer.
  Ripe and elegant, with a high albeit perfectly integrated alcohol, the wine is just lacking a tad bit of an extra special dimension on the backend to call it truly remarkable.

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  3/28/2018 - vespasian wrote:

  Showing some age at the rim; a little undistinguished on the nose, earthy and heady; a little sweet and diffuse. Age hasn't much for this. So so.

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  3/1/2018 - IvanLi wrote: 97 Points

  In my view this wine is to a Grand Cru Chambertin what Oakville, Napa Cabernet is to a Chateau Latour.
  Complex, dark fruit, licorice, earth, underbrush in a beautiful framing of delicate oak.
  
  Highly recommended.

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