2007 St. Innocent Pinot Noir Justice Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (45) Avg Score: 91.3 points

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  7/14/2020 - rocknroller wrote: 96 Points

  Medium garnet red color. PNP, split bottle over 3.5 hours. I'd been saving this bottle for a special occasion, and our anniversary fit the bill nicely. I can't really believe it had been five years since we last had a bottle, but time sure does fly. Well I had very high expections for this bottle based on previous experience with it and how the '07 St. Innocents have aged. This started rather slowly out of the gate and I was wondering if I'd missed the window for a few minutes. Silly me, as this just started blossoming after about 20 minutes in glass. And it just kept building and adding to the complexity through the next three hours as we reveled in our good fortune. Caveat Emptor: If you just drink this down, you will likely not get the same experience. This was one of those wines that hit on all cylinders for me. What a beguiling and seductive nose filled with pretty red fruits, more strawberry and raspberry, but still some cherry notes too, wonderful earthiness, more to underbrush and dried earth, dried flowers, baking spice, and fine ground tobacco. The palate is sublime and seamless, elegance in a glass, medium bodied, featherweight really, perfectly balanced with the same red berries showing, nice purity to the fruit and still the cherry notes showing here too; dried earth, truffle, sous bois, and later showing more damp earth and tobacco. Very long, feminine and seductive. All you could ever ask for in a pinot for my tastes. Adored it. This is the kind of wine you don't want any food to interfere with it - just savor every contemplative sip by itself. Clearly this has plenty of gas in the tank as this didn't really open for a half hour and then improved for a couple hours. I won't open my last one for a couple years anyway. 95+ to 96pts and my wife said is 97 too high - probably not.

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  4/5/2020 - footloosiety Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Left in our cellar maybe a bit too long and selected it to pair with surf & turf as a 'whoops, better drink up' choice, but it was just as we remembered, didn't seem to be negatively impacted by its 8 years in cellar.

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  11/18/2018 - projectgoboy wrote:

  Corked - bummer!

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  9/26/2018 - Mattshank wrote: 94 Points

  Stellar right out of the gate on Pnp. Notes after 30 minute slow ox in glass. Same Burg funk like last bottle (notes on 11/29/15) along with complex aromas of damp earth, black tea, fresh mint and slate minerals. Fantastic! Palate: Beautiful and ethereal with red fruits, perfect, velvety tannins, inky density yet elegant (very cool dichotomy to be sure), and a long, super refined finish. This last bottle of mine garners 94 points (best of all tastes and bottles I've had). Talk about leaving on a high note!

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  7/20/2018 - Rich.Herbs Likes this wine:

  Either past its drink date (fruit subdued, fades with aeration) or wait a few years and hope for a nice aged blend.

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