2002 Melville Pinot Noir Carrie's

Community Tasting Notes (22) Avg Score: 91.1 points

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  5/15/2017 - Neecies Likes this wine:

  Black, deep and sweet as aged Melvilles tend to be and surprisingly lacking in mature notes for a passively-stored 15 year old bottle. Would wish for just a tad more acid, but nice.

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  12/25/2015 - PaulH Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Ripe, but balanced with fully resolved tannins. Excellent minty spice on finish. A very enjoyable wine with many years left, I'd guess.

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  1/13/2013 - JonnyG wrote: 86 Points

  Nice aromatics but lacks acidity at this point. While balanced, it fell flat for us. No room for improvement, sadly.

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  11/11/2011 - Zweder wrote: 89 Points

  Beautiful and complex, lush bouquet with ripe fruits. Very full bodied and ripe fruits in the mouth; cherries on alcohol impression (not negative meant). Filling the whole mouth. A very jammy new world style pinot noir with a very long finish. Ready now; no hurry.

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  4/4/2010 - Frank Murray III wrote:

  My last bottle. Pretty plump still, big mid palate, lots of black cherry, some mushroom but lacks acidity at this point........so I gave the wine an overnight rest in the bottle, like I often do. My impressions tonight are much the same. Where the wine suceeds is in the color it still carrries, the balanced alcohol (the som kept giving me wine last night until I had killed 2/3rds of the bottle over dinner--much more than I often drink but with the food and water in the meal, and the managed alc, I felt fine) and how it still maintains the sappy black cherry, a hint of forest floor and some finishing raspberry. However, it lacks in any real cut or verve and finishes kind of flat. I'd say to drink up as age isn't going to add anything and while the wine doesn't yet show any 2ndary character IMO, it's ready to go.

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