1999 Talley Vineyards Pinot Noir Rosemary's Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (19) Avg Score: 90.7 points

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  12/31/2023 - ffjxc Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Blown away by this 24 year old pinot. Not as fruity as a typical younger Rosemary's but this smooth with a long finish. The color is still very red w no signs of oxidation. Very enjoyable still throwing some nice legs in the glass. Hints of strawberries.

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  2/22/2017 - JerM wrote: 94 Points

  (random mid-week w dale) [bottle 8221/10,115] Funky graphite, exotic spice, dark floral honey, blueberry skin, leathery pong, coconut, mossy earth, garrigue. Sousbois, bright acid, cherry, sourplum. Dry, colanut, dusty finish, with limited mint, cool sappy, and preserved peel. Resolved, age and youth, with power and elegance and drinking great! chambolle-esque. Easily the most interesting Cali pinot I've had.

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  6/18/2014 - UpfromtheCellar wrote: 88 Points

  Up from the cellar pulls out another one from a deeeep dark corner! The last reviews for this wine were back in 2011 and people were complaining of spritz, syrah and getting high. What a difference a few years makes.....
  
  Deep dark color at 15 years on, this cali-noir was a big bad bruiser in its day and in some ways still is. Cola and dark cherries still predominate and its held up better than many O-noirs of the same vintage, as well as many burgundies from around the same time as well. Which of course begs the question - is this a wine/grape that should be made in such an over ripe, over extracted style that 15 years on it still tastes like a typical cali-noir bruiser, punch you in the face, kick you in the shins and then laugh at you while you are trying to find the elegance and grace in the ruins?
  
  What it still has in power it lacks in style, lightness, and "being". There is no sense of place. Its balanced (enough) but the cola cherry core is whats wrong with this C-noir - its just a mono-chromatic expression that misses the point. OK, so it sells (and gee wiz duh, that's what this is all about right?). So does bad art and cheap fashion, but that doesn't change what they are.

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  12/22/2011 - chcook wrote:

  popped and poured. this was really weird. overwhelming reduction on nose and palate not typical of pinot at all. passed through vinturi and really no better. corked and put in cellar a couple of days. revisited last night and was now showing oxidation. drank a little then gave up. thought i got a hint of TCA last night, but maybe just an off aroma from this weird bottle. anyway, hoping this was flawed, but afraid that it isn't. if not this one is really out of character for this estate.

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  9/24/2011 - mdvino63 wrote: 92 Points

  Well, I think Dieter is high if he thinks this tastes like syrah. Certainly not the bottle I have open in front of me right now. Last night, on opening, this was slightly bricking red to the rim. Nose of red berries/cherry with some vanilla (oak), some gamey meaty aromas, slight mintiness, all of which repeat on the palate. On the second night, the wine looks like blood in a glass. This has gained in richness after one day corked in the wine cooler. Yes, this is unmistakenly rich CA fruit, but it is also unmistakenly pinot, and the secondary flavors give it a Burgundian character (really). And, yes, it has some tartness on the back end, with no trace of VA or spritz from this btl. This is drinking really nicely from my cellar. I just read ianinvirginia's note and I totally agree right across the board.

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