2016 Young Hagen Pinot Noir Riddle Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 89 points

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  4/9/2023 - gmbdds wrote: 90 Points

  This was a nice drinking Pinot with racy raspberry and black cherry fruits. Pretty full bodied and well spiced.

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  2/27/2021 - t_moderne wrote: 86 Points

  Pop and pour and tasted initially with food (fish tacos, lime-cilantro coleslaw and Heirloom cranberry beans, in case you were wondering.) The tasted on its own.
  Dark brownish-garnet color. Dark for a 4 year old wine.
  Nose offers some spice notes and a whiff of booze (that sharp impression of alcohol.
  Dark fruited with a orange peel citrus note. There is some cinnamon bark and a slight wisp of smoke/toasted bread on the back end.
  
  OK, but a bit disappointing. I was expecting more from this wine.

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  9/23/2020 - River Rat Likes this wine:

  Disclaimer, the wine was a gift from the winemaker after a business transaction.
  
  Pop and pour and the first night it had an earthy nose, like cutting down a tree, limbing, cutting into rounds and splitting. Yeah, kinda like that. Black cherry, my wife said chewy, pine needles but still wound up. Recorked after dinner, put in the fridge and revisited a couple days later. Chewy transformed into crunchy and the fruit turned more red/cranberry and expressive while the earthiness backed off a bit. Real nice, don’t rush opening yours though unless you have patience to allow it to properly breathe.

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  7/19/2020 - JGirl Likes this wine: 91 Points

  This is a well balanced wine. We cut open the wax seal and opened the bottle an hour before drinking. This was our group’s favorite Pinot of the night.

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