Fine Wine > Red > Pinot Noir > $50-100 > California

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"The wine’s natural acidity, purity of texture and gentleness automatically make you think of food. Flavorwise, it’s all about raspberries and cherries, cured meat, cola, spices and smoky oak. It’s delicious to drink now with a great steak, roasted lamb or grilled tuna." (Steve Heimoff)

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"The pure, ripe and delicate plum, raspberry and wilted rose flavors are delivered on a tight beam, with snappy acidity and firm, vibrant tannins."

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"Vivid red. Lively and precise on the nose, displaying scents of redcurrant, cherry, sandalwood and dried rose. Juicy and focused, with very good depth and sweetness to its red berry and bitter cherry flavors. Shows a refreshingly spicy quality on the firmly tannic, chewy finish, which lingers..

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"... the 2011 Pinot Noir Pisoni is nicely layered in this vintage. The 2011 is a relatively laid back wine from the Pisoni vineyard, yet there is wonderful finesse and a nuanced, textured quality to the fruit that is highly appealing. Sweet cherries, flowers, herbs, spices and crushed rocks flow..

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"Vivid red. Spicy black raspberry and blood orange aromas, with cinnamon, anise and rose qualities gaining strength in the glass. At once silky and focused on the palate, with juicy dark berry flavors showing impressive energy and lift. Finishes with suave floral pastille and spicecake notes and..

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"Wow. Black Kite’s River Turn, one of of its three annual block designates, is invigoratingly inviting, a heady mix of floral cherry pie, bright, full and ripe with a balanced backbone of acidity and a gentle hint of gingerbread. This wine is ready to enjoy this second, but if you can help..

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"The 2010 Pinot Noir Estate is an exceptionally elegant wine. Dried cherries, plums, exotic spices, mint and crushed flowers waft from the glass, with plenty of lift from the use of 50% whole clusters. There is a lot of personality here... The 2010 is striking from start to finish..."

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Brilliant and dark-hued, this 2010 de Villiers Vineyard Pinot Noir effuses playful, bright aromas of blackberry, licorice, mineral and just a hint of sweet oak. The wine is deep and smooth, with black cherry, spice and persistent cherry. Fine grained tannins offer a graceful structure and..