2011 Sokol Blosser Pinot Noir Goosepen Block

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 91.9 points

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  3/2/2021 - LMArcher Likes this wine:

  A liquid time capsule captures 2011 perfectly – and all-time classic vintage – long, cool hang time, and grapes with low sugar and high acid.
  
  Slight brick undertones back light the pale ruby robe. Acids still alert, tannins burnished with time, and tertiary notes redolent of tanned leather and smoky red fruit. Sublime.

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  3/2/2021 - The Drunken Cyclist Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Retail $80. This was the last of four bottles that I received from the kind folks at Sokol Blosser to celebrate their 50th anniversary (happy anniversary!) over Zoom (where else?). Whoa. By most accounts, 2011 was not a monumental vintage. In fact, it was maybe, maybe, the sixth or seventh best vintage of the decade. Maybe. But if you talk to those "in-the-know" it was a "classic" Willamette Valley vintage. That means, briefly, that the wines are much more defined by their acidity than by the fruit. While that certainly is the case here, there is still plenty of fruit in this medium-dark wine--cherry, earth, black pepper, minerality. Yowza. The palate, while wonderful, does not *quite* measure up to the nose, but that is a tall order--the nose is other-worldly. Subtle fruit, fantastic tartness, wonderful balance. Of the three Pinots tasted during the chat, this is easily the most "Burgundian" (a term I normally eschew): fruit, tartness, earth, none above, nor below, the other. A wonderful dance.
  
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  1/9/2020 - aChave wrote: 91 Points

  Light but good depth. Red fruit. Hint of spice. Good acidity. Burgundy character. Well done.

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  6/22/2019 - cabhorn Likes this wine: 94 Points

  This aged beautifully. Perfect Oregon Pinot.

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