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Argyle Nuthouse Pinot Noir 2002

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2002 Vintage

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Jax Fine Wine and Spirits (Cumming)

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Argyle Nuthouse Pinot Noir (2002)
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Winery:
Argyle Winery
Varietal:
Pinot Noir
Region:
USA > Oregon > Willamette Valley
Type:
Red Wine
Drink Dates:
Drink Now - 2010
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User Tags:  stone fruits, resinous, finish - long, fruit, berry, spice, floral, chemical, earthy, mineral 


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Oregon has only recently emerged as a source for premium wine and is winning fans over to their somewhat earthy style of Pinot Noir. With vineyards a bit cooler than most of California's, yet warmer still than Burgundy, Oregon's Pinot Noirs feature a synthesis of ripe fruit, ripe structure and transparency that draws on the strengths of both. The wines tend to have a touch of earthiness and a sense of transparency that many Pinots from California lack yet the fruit profile, full of dark berries, is decidedly warm-climate in nature.

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The color is a very deep ruby red. Look for sun thickened black cherry and cassis stock reduction type aromas, accompanied by licorice and toasted fresh sawn oak and cedar. All these aromas are packed into a box of sweet, floral scents reminiscent of garden violets at evening time. The flavor is very thick of sweet, ripe black fruit flavors including Oregon's famous Marion blackberry, dance all the way through to the end of the palate. This wine is tannin rich, but tastes like the rough corners of the tannin molecules have been sanded smooth. The hauntingly long finish has sweet, fresh black read more...


 

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Color-red garnet; Nose-vanilla & wild strawberry; mouth-clove, vanilla, toast, mineral; finish-medium;
buy it age it.


July 2009

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Outstanding wine! Aromatic berry with spice mixed into earthy minerals & slight cedar taste. Very bold and all-encompassing experience. Has to be tried to be truly understood.


August 2007

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The Willamette Valley is best known for their rich Pinot Noir and this is one of the biggest and richest ever from Argyle! Take the color and scent of a Guinee rose, add fruit aromas of black cherry and marion berry with spice aromas of turned earth and dark cocoa and you just begin to approach the complexity of this wine. Ripe and generous, with distinctive violet and rose petal overtones to the cherry and spice flavors, lingering with fine texture. Needs time to settle in. Twenty percent of the wine will be bottled under screw cap. The wine bottled under screw cap scored 92 points. Best from 2007 through 2012. -Wine Spectator


 

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Number on 98 Wine Spectator Top 100 Wines of 2004! This Willamette Valley Pinot Noir is one of the biggest and richest in some time. Much of our prized 'Prestige' vineyard blocks went into the blend for this wine. Black Cherry, Marion berry, and spice aromas are concentrated around a tight mineral/earth/tar center. The flavors are sweet, big fruited, and built up with ripe, gripping tannin structure. The finish is what we all look for in Pinot Noir, long sweet with fruit and floral hints. This wine despite its value-price category will age well in to the first decade of the 2000's. read more...


 

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The Nuthouse designation is used for our biggest, boldest and most aggressive style of Pinot Noir.This Nuthouse blend is predominantly based on Pinot Noir fruit from low elevation blocks at our estateLone Star Vineyard in the Eola Hills. TASTING NOTES How deep is the ocean? How long does the ‘E' note of a string double bass vibrate through one'ssoul? These are just some of the thoughts one will contemplate while experiencing this 2002Nuthouse Pinot Noir! Aromas of dark, wild berries and spices of licorice and cedar are locked deepinto the earthy mineral core of this wine. Only time read more...


 

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