Tasting Notes

WA89

Issuing with one exception from the same sites as the corresponding 2010, Grochau’s 2009 Pinot Noir Cuvee Des Amis displays lightly-cooked cassis and blackberry mingled with sassafras, cola, black tea, licorice and black pepper. Its pungent, incisive palate impression is considerably more invigorating than that of many a Willamette Pinot from this vintage, and its tannins finer-grained. I’d like to see more sheer juiciness but considering this vintage’s challenges that’s understandable. I would plan on enjoying this through 2015.

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