Winery - Heintz
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A lovely Pinot marked by crispness, complexity of fruit, and the hard-to-describe wild, feral attractions of the Sonoma Coast. With brisk tannins, the wine shows cherry, cola, pomegranate and cedar flavors, with an ineffable expression of wild thyme, sage and lavender. Drink this beautiful wine now and through 2014.
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Heintz Pinot Noir - 2008
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Very ripe and extracted, a super-fruity Pinot Noir almost as full-bodied as a Rhône wine. Atypical, but rich and delicious in sour cherry candy, cherry pie filling, cola and mocha flavors, with smoke and caramel notes from oak. Could mellow after 2010.
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Heintz Pinot Noir - 2007
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
With tiers of honeyed apricot, pear, pineapple tart, vanilla and crème brûlée flavors, this is a delicious sweet wine. The residual sugar is more than 13%. Fortunately, all this richness is balanced with crisp coastal acidity.
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Heintz Chardonnay - 2006
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Released, for some reason, at the age of four-plus years, this Syrah is losing fruit and showing its age. It’s dry and tannic and showing some vegetal, herbal bones, but with enough of a blackberry and cherry coat to get by. Not going anywhere.
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Heintz Syrah - 2005
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Dark as midnight on a moonless night,with an impenetrable, mysterious aroma, this wine is nowhere near ready to drink, but it shows considerable promise. Teases with flavors of blackberry tart, black currants, mocha and sweet violets, and chocaholics will appreciate the dark, slightly sweet chocolate notes. Dramatic and complex, this Syrah should develop through the next six years, at least.
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Heintz Syrah - 2008
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
The underlying wine is very good, showing brisk acidity, a cool-climate minerality and long hangtime, ripe flavors of pineapples, crisp green apples, mangoes and limes. Yet the oak is heavy-handed, overwhelming the fruit with caramel, and making the finish too sweet.
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Heintz Chardonnay - 2008
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A very good wine that easily earns its score, but is not perfect. It’s a bit on the fruity-sweet, one-dimensional side, with jammy pineapple and apricot flavors, enriched with sweet, smoky, vanilla-accented oak. Yet fine, firm coastal acidity provides needed balance.
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Heintz Chardonnay - 2007
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
An interesting and different Syrah, and a promising release from a young brand to watch. The wine is very high in acidity, giving it a firm grip. The flavors are tremendously rich, offering a tsunami of blackberries, currants, plum sauce, baker’s chocolate, leather, grilled meat, pine nut and black pepper. It’s youthfully aggressive right now in tannins, and needs time for all the serious parts to marry. Leave it alone until sometime in 2010, and it should haul for years after.
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Heintz Syrah - 2007
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