Winery - Tantara
* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Dramatic, young Pinot, immature and exuberant, showing huge, Dijon-inspired pure fruit flavors of cherry pie filling, tangerine zest, cola, cassis and charry, caramelized new oak. Tastes honeyed, almost sweet, but the tannins and acids keep things on track. Seems like one to drink early.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This wine feels plush and elegant in the mouth, with a light, silky texture. Tart, sour cherry flavors veer toward herbal, tomato and sage notes. Despite the absence of fruity flavor, the wine is surprisingly interesting and complex, and will come alive with the right foods. —S.H.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A little riper and fruitier than Tantara’s Bien Nacido bottling, with a distinct sour cherry flavor. The delicate tannins and acids are in good balance. Most notable for its luscious, velvety mouthfeel, this wine could improve in the short term. —S.H.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
One of five single-vineyard releases from this winery, the Bien Nacido offering is a complex wine that encompasses herbaceous, vegetal notes and fleshier, fruity ones. The wine at this point is lean and hard and veering toward beets and tomatoes. Time may bring out a sweeter face. —S.H.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Made in the house style, an expressive, supple young wine of enormous fruit and early-drinking charm. Soft and silky, with barely noticable tannins, this has scads of raspberries, cherries, sweet pomegranates, tangerines and cola. Drink now–2010.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Wow. This enormously aromatic wine explodes with the most inviting raspberry, cherry, gingerbread and cinnamon-spicebox notes. It tastes as rich as it smells, with rum punch, cola, tangerine, cherry and cinnamon stick flavors. For all the richness, the wine is dry and silkily complex.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Very rich and complicated. Shows pie-filling flavors of cherries, raspberries and red currants, seasoned with anise, vanilla, cocoa, black pepper and cinnamon. Easy to enjoy this elegant, delicious wine.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This is a brilliant wine that defines Bien Nacido, the coast, and California Pinot Noir. There were worries about the heat, but somehow this has ended up balanced, dry and classically elegant, maybe because of vine age; they’re now 36-years- old. Impresses for the power of its cherry pie filling, mocha, rum and cola and spicebox flavors that finish dry and complex, with the longest, most wonderfully complex finish. Drink now–2010.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This is from Tantara’s 3-acre block at Bien Nacido, and it’s a very good young wine, fresh in citrusy acidity but ripe in cherry essence and cola flavors. Planted only in 1999, it shows a young vine exuberance that limits complexity, but not interest.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Here’s a big, in-your-face Pinot Noir, offering up a blast of superripe fruit, almost Grenache-like in thick, soft red cherry flavors, complexed with sweet licorice, cola, mocha and spicy, vanilla oak. It’s a roller coaster palate experience, a thrill every second, yet somehow maintains a silky, Pinotesque delicacy. Great wine.
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