2014 St. Innocent Pinot Noir Temperance Hill Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (13) Avg Score: 91.3 points

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  8/6/2022 - Brian Glas Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Tasted after 2 hours of air. Crunchy raspberry fruit. Nice balance. Violets. Nice lift. Long finish. Very nice.

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  4/25/2022 - HandmadeHomemade Likes this wine:

  Cellared upon release, dark in color, potent, sharp aroma of fresh and cooked raspberry, black plum, reductive, sour green herbs, some oak. Seems tightly wound/dumb phase. Slow ox for 2.5 hrs sipping occasionally. In the mouth, the wine is med-full body, med tannin, ++ acid. Some funk on the palate, sharp on the tongue, fruit acid feels searing. Either this is a flawed bottle (dunno what the flaw would even be?) or this is still such a baby/in a dumb phase. There's a slight tug on the cheeks from the tannin, flavors are dark and brooding, black fruits, earth, that sour green herb (sorrel-esque), moderate oak. Revisited the next day, still more of the same- monolithic in structure. Maybe this bottle is in a bad spot as I have never met a St. Innocent wine I've disliked- shame as I don't have another bottle to experiment with.

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  3/17/2022 - gudetama wrote: flawed

  Slighty corked. After at least a hundred bottles over 10 years, this is is the first corked wine I've ever had from St. Innocent.

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  10/4/2020 - walkerjfw wrote: 92 Points

  First bottle of this designate, batch bought at release. PnP, drank over 2 evenings.
  
  Medium ruby, translucent. Nose of bright red fruits, raspberry, pastille. Palate shows cooked strawberry, cranberry, blackcurrant, baking spice. Persistent through the mid palate. Medium/full body by OR Pinot standards, medium finish.
  
  Showing really well right now, first tasting since buying at the winery...it has settled in and should drink at this level for at least a few more years.

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  5/20/2020 - UpfromtheCellar wrote: 89 Points

  Short finish. That's its problem. On the nose its all fruits and spice. On the palate its all fruits and spice. On the finish its all .......... ???
  
  Easy drinking at 6 years and it should be entering its prime. But what's with the non-existent finish? Maybe its bottle variation (other reviewers rave about the finish)? Lovely nose, delightful initial attack, fades into the mid-palate and totally disappears into the finish.
  
  Crying here for what I've missed. I'm as big a Mark fan as the next guy but this is not 94 or 93 territory as many of his earlier reviewers score this. It was just an above average O-noir for a below average O-noir price tag.

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