2019 Kutch Pinot Noir McDougall Ranch

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 92.4 points

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  4/14/2024 - Chuck Miller wrote:

  Bought a few bottles of this several years ago, but had yet to open one. For that matter, never had a Kutch wine before tonight. While still very youthful, it was an almost perfect balance of fruit, acid and tannins. I look forward to seeing what a few more years of cellaring will do.

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  4/1/2024 - CIAgrad86 Likes this wine: 94 Points

  i love kutch wines

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  9/4/2023 - gharter Likes this wine: 92 Points

  PnP. Raspberry, strawberry, earth, spice and cherry aromas . Lots of flavor with raspberry, strawberry, earth, spices, cherry and slight herbal. Medium body with medium tannin.

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  11/25/2022 - Frank Murray III wrote:

  Opened yesterday for T-giving. Had plenty left over for today for retasting and my note here. The stems that I didn't sense when this was first bottled back in late 2020, those stems are now here. Aromatically they add a cracked spices note that I enjoy, although for some these will be a distraction, especially for those who dislike whole cluster. For me, they give the wine an aromatic seasoning. And similar to yesterday is a loamy, tilled earth supporting a cedary cherry, which then evolves into blue fruit, red apple and strawberry with good palate width (left to right) and concentration. The spice component from the stems provides something in the brown spice realm, what I called cinnamon and my SIL called cumin. It's a pungent spice, probably influenced by the whole cluster (75% and only used wood in Jamie's Pinots) but like with the aromatic, it seasons the palate, too. Drinking pretty well now, a good balance of structure and approachability.....forgot about the bottle in the fridge. Been open 4 days with the cork stuffed into it and I gotta say, the wine is hanging together beautifully. It's a little fleshier now, with the whole cluster more integrated, leaving the cranberry and red apple to be in the foreground. So, no worries about this wine falling apart, as there is plenty of energy here.

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  7/10/2022 - Frank Murray III wrote:

  Kutch Verticals--Trout Gulch, McDougall and Falstaff: Vertical (non-blind) of McDougall, 2010 -2021. We did not taste the 2011 (no one owned it) nor 2014 and 2018 (stupid COVID forced the owners to have to miss the tasting) and the 2021 was a tank sample that Jamie pulled for us and shipped down for the tasting (being bottled next week so it's the final composition). Aromas of purple flowers. Juicy and spicy. And after tasting the 2017 right before this wine, I can sense now how the vintage comes through in both. In 2017, the fruit is red and black whereas in the 2019 it shifts back to a red tone with the blue edges, which is what I prefer in McDougall. Has some of the same spicy cinnamon/cardamom too that I find in this wine from other vintages. Has the hard cherry candy of the 2016, along with the weight and tactile feel of the 2016. Juicy and fresh, with some tannin in the finish. Very good.

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