Marimar Estate Don Miguel Vineyard Earthquake Block Estate Grown & Estate Bottled Unfiltered Pinot Noir (Russian River Valley)

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Tipo

Red

Uva

Pinot Noir

País

United States

Região

Russian River Valley · Sonoma

Denominação

Russian River Valley

Corpo

medium

Acidez

medium

Tanino

low

Doçura

dry

Safras avaliadas

• 201490 pts

  From a three-acre block planted to one clone of the grape—the highest-elevation parcel on the site—this wine is coolly coastal in its exploration of black fruit and smoky oak. Full bodied and concentrated, it offers complex notes of licorice, citrus and dark chocolate.

• 201387 pts

  From an organically farmed block planted entirely to the Pommard clone, this wine offers strawberry, earth and black tea, diluted slightly by a tannic underbite that competes with the fruit. Softly structured, it grips further on the finish.

• 201291 pts

  This wine is ripe in strawberry-raspberry notes. It's lush and velvety, with a richness that will appeal to those who like a hint of decadence in their Pinot. Round and soft, with a bite of earthiness throughout, it brightens with a trace of minerality on the finish.

• 201092 pts

  Although the tannins give this wine a hard astringency, they can't mask the richness of the fruit. Once you get used to the tannins, you find a blast of cherry and blackberry jam fruit. This is a wine to put in the cellar until 2018.

• 200893 pts

  This block selection from the estate vineyard is planted to the old Pommard clone. It's an elegantly dry wine, dense in black and red cherry fruit, with hints of cola, wild herbs and spices. Feels very fine and silky in the mouth, and gets better with airing. Drink now and over…

• 200793 pts

  This block-grown Pinot from the estate vineyard, in the heart of the cool Green Valley, shows the signature Marimar style of tight acidity, dryness, silky elegance and red fruit. It's not a big, fat, blockbuster Pinot, but a leaner, more masculine style. The raspberry, cherry, r…

• 200688 pts

  Good and complex, but smells a little candied, like mint cherry-scented toothpaste, and tastes sweetly jammy in cherries. This all-Pommard clone Pinot may be going through a mute phase. Try holding for several months.