Excellent bouquet with red fruit, floral perfume, and stem. Thin on the palate with understated red fruit and a touch of sweetness, but not much. Plenty of herbal and stem quality. Pretty, but this doesn't have the aromatic moxy to wow, and with the fruit receded now, this can't keep up with the best of 90s Williams Selyem.
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Less impressive than my last bottle, but perhaps it was a storage issue - in this case, I wonder if this bottle had been kept in a very cold cellar. Considerably less development this time out, a very young wine, showing more alcohol and a little hot with bigger fruit. Still a decent Cali pinot and well-liked by most. My last bottle was more advanced and subtle leading me to believe that at least some of these bottles will be better with more bottle age - an encouraging thought.
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10/29/2023 - misterstarre wrote: 89 Points
Steady. See previous note.
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7/23/2021 - misterstarre Likes this wine: 90 Points
Excellent bouquet with red fruit, floral perfume, and stem. Thin on the palate with understated red fruit and a touch of sweetness, but not much. Plenty of herbal and stem quality. Pretty, but this doesn't have the aromatic moxy to wow, and with the fruit receded now, this can't keep up with the best of 90s Williams Selyem.
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12/23/2016 - enofilene Likes this wine: 90 Points
Very Cali berry fruit, cranberries, but well-balanced on the palate with soft and redolent fruit throughout.
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3/20/2014 - aagrawal wrote: 86 Points
Bonham's and Butterfield Pre-auction tasting (San Francisco, CA): Nice red fruit; palate is just a tad unbalanced and falls a little flat. 86
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5/19/2013 - vindictive wrote:
Less impressive than my last bottle, but perhaps it was a storage issue - in this case, I wonder if this bottle had been kept in a very cold cellar. Considerably less development this time out, a very young wine, showing more alcohol and a little hot with bigger fruit. Still a decent Cali pinot and well-liked by most. My last bottle was more advanced and subtle leading me to believe that at least some of these bottles will be better with more bottle age - an encouraging thought.
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