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Community Tasting Notes (19) Avg Score: 89.7 points

  • Slightly browned ruby.
    Nose some dark fruit, a plummy note with some rose florals. .
    Palate earthy, vegetal, red fruits with time.

    Nice depth of flavor but not sure how much longer it would go out -- drink now

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  • Advance colour; ripe dark fruit, spicy, fulsome; quiet, rounded palate, fleshy, solid. Finishes well. Very long. Just doesn't convince. I'd drink soon, others thought otherwise.

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  • Was at the tasting room this week and they poured me a sample and i bought a bottle. I won't keep it for long but thought it had great flavors and was not "over the hill". Perhaps this one had lots of bottle variation. They may have poured using a coravin

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  • 4.5 years after the prior: quite dark and earthy. Savory. A bare suggestion of barnyard gives it character. Good acidity. I think this will last a few more years. Whether it evolves in any meaningful way is another question. And on reflection, I’m put off by the massive bottle — hardly eco friendly. Pleasant and enjoyable over three nights.

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  • To be fair, I should've drank this wine about two years ago. That being said I was disappointed as it was no where near as nice as I had remembered from my first experience in the ABC tasting room. The nose is so subtle as to be almost non-existent; with only a hint of red fruits and earthiness.
    The palate offers a little more expressiveness of the same but quickly fades into a slightly tannic finish. Again, I probably waited to long to enjoy but I was hoping that the Pinot of a producer as solid as ABC would have aged a little more gracefully.

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