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Arcadian Pinot Noir Pisoni Vineyard(1999)
- Winery:
- Arcadian Estate Vineyards
- Varietal:
- Pinot Noir
- Region:
- USA > California > Monterey > Santa Lucia Highlands
- Type:
- Red Wine
- User Tags:
- dried, herbaceous, cherry, stone fruits, red fruit, closed, spices, (tree) fruit, balance, subdued
My aspirations for this vineyard are somewhat different than many of the producers working with this fruit. The tendency to harvest very ripe and sometimes overripe grapes to produce a highly extracted wine with deep color and intensity and yes high alcohol has become the norm and has met with both critical and consumer success. While I applaud my colleagues for their successes I do not subscribe to their theories that this is the best way to make Pinot Noir here in California. Rather I am looking for much more elegance and balance. I choose to harvest with much more modest sugar levels and much higher read more...
- Gregory Dal Piaz
- New York, NY
- October 2008
- Offers up effusive dried cherry, cherry zinger tea, dried leaf and sassafrass notes. Decidedly bigger in the mouth with intense flavors of meaty fruit and excellent balance that belies the weight. Soft and almost voluptuous in the mouth though with substantial tannins that give the finish a touch of a murky feel, ends with a touch a vanilla on the finale. Lovely if still a touch young and finely straddle the new world/old world line. 90pts
