Was fortunate enough to taste the ‘14 and ‘15 vintages of this wine a couple years back at Mending Wall alongside a slew of Rivers Marie wines when Will hosted FMII, Brig, Alan R and others. Nice to be able to keep the string alive and learn more about how this wine reacts to air.
- 2016 Young Hagen Pinot Noir Riddle Vineyard - USA, California, Sonoma County, Sonoma Coast (9/23/2020)
Disclaimer, the wine was a gift from the winemaker after a business transaction.
Pop and pour and the first night it had an earthy nose, like cutting down a tree, limbing, cutting into rounds and splitting. Yeah, kinda like that. Black cherry, my wife said chewy, pine needles but still wound up. Recorked after dinner, put in the fridge and revisited a couple days later. Chewy transformed into crunchy and the fruit turned more red/cranberry and expressive while the earthiness backed off a bit. Real nice, don’t rush opening yours though unless you have patience to allow it to properly breathe.
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