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Vitis Vinifera
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 | | 12/12/2002 3:25 AM |
| So pyang scored me a few of these bottles. Considering my atrophying Pinot Noir palate, I thought it best to give this one a rip.
Look: pretty dark stuff for a Pinot
Smell: seems austere up front. Not the ripe, fruit-laden Pinot that has been en vogue over the last few years. It emphasizes subtelty, as a Pinot I guess should. So, it's not as easy to pick out the types as fruit as would another Pinot, but to ponder the different fine points. And they are:
The first fruit is that of dark cherry, blueberry, and cola (that is a fruit right?). Prominent among the fruit is cedar, cigar, and a bubble gum/soap sorta hybrid thingy. The subtelties are earth, mushroom, and Frenh oaky vanilla.
Taste: medium-bodied, good acitity (more acid than a fruit-bomb Pinot), oak, young sleek tannins, decent balance.
It probably should have been decanted, and some age wouldn't hurt it though I wouldn't age it more than a year or two. Still, nice to have a good Pinot. The nose seems more mature than the palate.
I'd give it a B+ on my hedonistic scale.
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