2016 Peter Michael Pinot Noir Clos du Ciel

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 94.6 points

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  3/4/2024 - Volleyball Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Another amazing Peter Michael Pinot. Enjoyed with pasta with no decanting.
  
  Nose is a knockout - ripe strawberries and raspberries and rose.
  
  Flavor is intense, ripe strawberry and raspberry, oak, smoke and rich allspice that really lingers on the finish. Not a big body but very powerful. Fresh but not overwhelming acidity and tannins that are certainly there but hardly noticeable for the flavor.

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  7/12/2022 - TashNYC wrote:

  Cherry, dark fruit, Asian spices, velvet.

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  8/17/2021 - bobvictor Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Drank over 3 nights. Excellent on all and drinking very well. Rich fruit, Asian spice. Medium body. Among the best CA Pinots I've had.

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  6/7/2020 - fcs@macsimsllc.com Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Unbelievable!

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  5/30/2019 - fcs@macsimsllc.com Likes this wine: 95 Points

  This wine was amazing!
  
  The bottle was removed from the wine cellar an hour before opening and sat for another 1/2 hour opened before serving. The color was ruby with a corona of bright red. The nose was full of fresh red fruit. No discernible alcohol odor present in this very young Pinot. The first taste reminded me of dark red cherries I used to eat off the old cherry tree next door every summer evening of my youth.
  
  A minimum amount of tannin was present but seemed to integrate as I swallowed such that the finish was velvet, yet strong! The finish stayed with me for over 30 seconds. Over the next hour the tannin completely integrated and the wine became warm and powerful as it approached room temperature. Astonishing body for a Sonoma Pinot. The remainder of the bottle was consumed with my bone-in Rib Eye to add delicious company to my Steak and Fries.

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