2007 W.H. Smith Pinot Noir Maritime

Community Tasting Notes (46) Avg Score: 88.9 points

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  8/1/2021 - Senso-beak wrote: 82 Points

  The last bottle of the W.H Smith inventory. Enjoyed with sockeye, crab cakes and kale salad. This one was over the hill, lacking precision and fruit core. Very mild funk on the nose blew off quickly. Light to medium body, these have always been a bit light - glyceric. Somewhat oxidized flavors - improved with air. Plum, pomegranate, strawberry notes. Overall ok, just a bit lacking at this juncture.

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  11/25/2016 - TashNYC wrote: 89 Points

  Cellar clean-up. Great with grilled salmon. All gone.

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  6/26/2016 - EducatedDrunk wrote: 88 Points

  Definitely gets better with age - it will keep another 3 years, easily. Except for mine which we've drunk already.

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  5/25/2016 - CR lawrence Likes this wine: 90 Points

  I'd been highly disappointed over the first 6 years of trying to appreciate this Pinot; however, this is one that needed a LOT of time in the bottle. MY experience is this is one of those wines that had a good review, but became dormant for a much longer time than the expected "drinking windows" reported. I'd pretty much forgotten it, but decided to try in again when I found a couple of bottles hiding in my cellar. Glad I did... it's finally opened up and managed to claw its way into being appreciated. Interesting tastes for a medium-dark colored pinot; a combination of blueberry jam, apricot (who would have guessed this?), and raspberry. Kind of a shifty personality, but worth the wait, finally.

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  11/28/2015 - TashNYC wrote: 88 Points

  Earlier consumption. Good hut not fantastic

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