Winery - Robert Stemmler
* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Lots of richness in this dry, minerally Chardonnay. It has forward flavors of peaches, pears, baked green apples and flint, while lots of new oak contributes honey and caramel notes.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
The flavors of this Pinot, made from pre-Dijon clone Martini selection vines, are fine. They range from cherries and cola to sweet cured tobacco and buttered cinnamon toast to smoky vanilla. If the wine had a crisper, livelier mouthfeel, it would score a lot higher.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A powerful and dramatic Pinot Noir. The first thing you notice is the depth. The range of flavors goes on and on, ranging from cherries, oranges and cola through mocha to more classic notes of forest floor, mushrooms and peppery spices. Bone dry, with ultra-fine tannins, it’s a gorgeous wine now, and should age gracefully for 6–8 years.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Very fine and complex. This deeply flavored Pinot Noir is powerful, but it’s also elegantly silky, which is the magic combination. Shows perfectly ripe cherry and raspberry fruit, with gorgeous overtones of oak and spices. Beautiful now, and will age well through 2014 or so.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A very nice Pinot that shows the classic elegance associated with this producer. It’s one to drink now. Dry and silky, it offers rich, complex flavors of cherries, cola, spices and sandalwood. Feels really classy all the way through.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Something went south on this wine. It has a stubbornly vegetal or moldy note throughout, to the detriment of the fruit, which seems to be rich, and the oak, which certainly is. Tasted in a flight of its price peers, it was a big last place.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A pleasant, complex and highly likeable Pinot Noir for drinking now. It’s made in a lighter style, with a silky mouthfeel framing cherry and raspberry Lifesaver candy flavors. The acidity is especially nice, giving the wine a bracing feel.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A pretty, polished and elegant Pinot Noir, the kind that feels like sheer silk in your mouth. It’s delicious, too, with spicy raspberry, cherry and sweet oak flavors. Lots of charm in this Pinot to drink now.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Made solidly in the California style of ripe fruit and plenty of oak. Shows luscious pineapple tart, pear jam and buttered toast flavors, but balanced with firm acidity and a stony minerality.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Earthy and minerally, an austere Chard by today’s standards, with a thyme and tobacco edge to the modest peach fruit. My bias is for either impossibly rich, oaky Chards or sleek, fruity, unoaked ones. This falls between those goal posts.
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