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-- <i>91 points Burghound #28 (Allen Meadows), Highly Recommended: California Grapevine, v.34.#2</i>
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Highly Recommended: California Grapevine, v.34.#2. Another perfect growing season in the Sta. Rita Hills: warm Spring, cool, exceptionally long Summer, and harvest at the perfect moment to capture the magic of the Clos Pepe Vineyard. A blend of 115, 667 and 777 clones, picked on three separate dates to represent a blend of an early, mid-ripeness and slightly later picks. The wine has great red and black berry fruit and richness for its moderate alcohol. The aromas are blackberry, blueberry and strawberry—fresh and bright in a background of earthy minerals and fantastic structure. The wine is a nice blend of the high-toned fruit of the 2005 vintage and the fantastic structure of 2004. Cellar it as long as you can stand it: it’s a very nice pleasure wine in its youth, but it really wants to be laid down for 4-8 years for full complexity and harmony. Look for it to turn a corner around 2010, and persist well into that decade. Try this wine with strong cheese, duck confit, a nice piece of poached salmon, venison or smoked pork loin with cherry peppercorn sauce. About 700 cases made. 14.4% alcohol, 3.38 pH at 7 grams of acid. California ripeness at Continental levels of structure.<BR><BR>Allen Meadows: (Burghound #28)2006 Pinot Noir – Sta Rita Hills: (bottled at 14.5%; $56). A wonderfully complex and beguiling nose features ripe but very fresh aromas of cranberry, raspberry, earth and subtle spice notes that introduce precise, intense and balanced middle weight flavors culminating in a vibrant, precise and beautifully persistent finish that displays a hint of youthful austerity. This is really impressively pure and quite refined and I particularly like the balance and drive with absolutely no sense of undue weight or heaviness, indeed the only nit that I can point out is a slight trace of backend warmth. 91 POINTS/Maturity 2012+<BR></p>
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