1996 Talley Vineyards Pinot Noir Rosemary's Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 83 points

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  10/29/2011 - AlanM5 wrote: 75 Points

  Clearly over the hill. Brick red edges. Still very jammy. Very ripe dried fruit notes. However, it has Bret. I am not very sensitive to Bret, but my sister is and she refused to drink any. I think it is no longer a very good wine.

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  7/30/2011 - SoCal wrote:

  Dried fruit, prune, and raisin nose. The palate was more of the same cooked notes, mushy cherries chocolate, sherry like at times. Decent finish. Overall showed strong signs of heat exposure, too bad.

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  12/24/2010 - Keith Levenberg wrote: flawed

  Cooked and maderized.

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  9/18/2008 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 91 Points

  This bottling was recommended to me by a Burgundy aficionado who opined that even though it's a big, broad-shouldered wine it has a Richebourg-esque harnessed power. Unfortunately, the few I've tried younger than this had the power but were just fat and unrefined. But now with this wine I see what he is talking about. Maybe age has streamlined it into the right proportions. This is intensely aromatic with mature savory scents from the moment the cork pops and the bouquet fills the room as it's decanted. The fruit retains a vibrancy and freshness that makes it taste much younger but has coalesced into an exotic melange much deeper than anything you can find in a young wine, enlivened by the aromatics and flavor of steeped orange peel. Very classy and drinkable, this is really on the verge of true grand cru.

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  2/8/2005 - AlanM5 wrote:

  Drank a bottle of this and a bottle of the 1996 Rincon PN last night with some friends. Both superb Pinots. Very different from each other. The Rincon was very structured with defined fruit tastes, mostly cherry but some florals running around also. Not alot of nose at first but after it had been open half an hour the nose got better and better. This is a wine that will get better for some years yet.
  
  The Rosemary's Vineyard on the other hand was a fruit bomb. Incredible fruit package. An immense pleasure to drink, but I am not sure if it will ever get any better. No sign of age on it yet, but to my mind it lacks the structure to age and improve. Which is not to say it won't stay just fine for years to come. I don't know.

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