2018 Walter Scott Pinot Noir X-Novo Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (8) Avg Score: 93 points

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  10/15/2023 - Djfermentation Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Lovely with pizza and good friends in Torrey UT last night after a neat hike and the eclipse!

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  11/24/2022 - Justin S Likes this wine: 92 Points

  A Thanksgiving wine. I was very impressed with this showing as compared to two years ago, when it seemed slightly over ripe and just too much puppy fat. What a difference today. Light on its feet, cranbery, raspberry, cherry. Wonderful fruit basket nose. Drinking quite well now. This doesn't seem like a long-term ager to me, but I think we are all still figuring out Oregon PN, so I could be wrong. Seems best in next 5 years. Paid $55 and the new vintage is $80. :(

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  1/23/2022 - Djfermentation Likes this wine: 94 Points

  I thought I would give one of our bottles a try last night as a pre dinner football watching drink and then to pair with butter chicken. This was quite approachable after a brief decant. Plenty of dimension and depth with that bright Eola Amity freshness. The pairing was pretty solid too.
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  10/18/2020 - Bob H wrote:

  Fascinating how each of these young Pinots shows so differently from each other - given the same vintage and winemaker, I can only assume here that the vineyards account for this.
  
  This may be my favorite nose of the three, with red & black fruits rising from the glass.
  
  More together than the Temperance Hill on the palate, with great persistence than I am still tasting as I type this note. That said, a youngster. I do like the potential here.

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  8/1/2020 - William Kelley Likes this wine:

  In insider's choice in the range this year is the 2018 Pinot Noir X-Novo Vineyard, a supple and perfumed wine that bursts from the glass with delicate aromas of rose petal, wintergreen, blood orange, wild berries and coniferous forest floor. Medium-bodied, satiny and expressive, it's beautifully pure and transparent, with racy acids, melting tannins, and a long, precise finish.

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