2018 Cameron Pinot Noir Reserve

Community Tasting Notes (4) Median Score: 91 points

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  3/26/2021 - Parmstro78 wrote: 85 Points

  Overly ripe, plum, jammy, nice balanced tannin. Not bad but stylistically not my kind of pinot.

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  3/19/2021 - OregonLoafer Likes this wine:

  Oops, I drank my two bottles of this wine. Might try to pick up another, because I would love to drink this in a decade or two.
  
  Similar to my last note, except this time the wine opened up with several hours of air and became more expressive, rather than tighter. Cameron funk, dark berries, iron, tobacco, earth.
  
  For me, this has all the best qualities of a "big" wine in terms of density and plush mouthfeel, without any of the failings of being too ripe - i.e. there's nothing jammy or heavy about it. It's like a maglev train: Obviously powerful and big but gliding effortlessly along as if by magic.
  
  Really good stuff and a big step up from the Dundee Hills (though also a big step up in price). Makes me realize that, for all the Cameron I drink, I've never splurged on the SVDs. That may have to change.

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  2/4/2021 - Aravind Asok wrote:

  Really opened for tomorrow. Poured into a wide-bottom decanter. This has 13.8% ABV, which seems quite high for a Cameron wine. On the nose: reminds me of the 16 reserve. Very ripe blackberry, soft plum, mushroomy Cameron funk, which is much softer than usual, soft cinnamon, clove and a touch of cola. On the palate: downright dense on the attack, and acidity seems softer than usual. Plum, blackberry, pomegranate molasses, an unusual alcoholic heat. Finishes dark with soft tannin and some bitterness.

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  10/28/2020 - OregonLoafer Likes this wine:

  Damn that is good. Expansive, dense, dark fruited but fresh. First-class mouthfeel. 13.8% ABV but definitely not too ripe. Wonderful earth on top of plums and herbs and such. This was ripping good right after popping the cork. With several hours of air, the acid and tannins came to the forefront. On day 2 it mellowed back down a bit.
  
  Drink now as a PnP over a few hours, or hold. I may need to get more of these.

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