Dr. Owen Bargreen

9.3

2011 St. Innocent ‘Zenith Vineyard’ Pinot Noir- The Zenith Vineyard is St. Innocent’s estate vineyard, located eleven miles northwest of Salem, Oregon. This 2011 Pinot Noir shows wonderful forest floor and wet stone character on the nose with blood orange rind, cran-cherry and cigar ash also coming in aromatically. The aromatic range is seriously good right now. The palate is silky smooth right now as the mouthfeel entices. The richness reminds me more of a 2012 bottling as there is a seamless quality to the wine that grips you. Red and dark fruits weave together, with also citrus and earthy tones quite primary. Downright delicious, this is a stunning bottling by eminent winemaker, Mark Vlossak. Drink 2018-2028- 93 — 6 years ago

Tom Kearney

9.0

Earth, leaves, fuzzy, cran-cherried. Ocean spray cran-cherry, clay. — 8 years ago

with Jillian, Kate and 5 others

MaJ CappS

8.9

Fragrant, commanding nose. Bold and reassuring, a Cabernet that plays drums. Dark tannins-deep fruit. Roasted plum, lingen berry, tart cran. Cocoa nibs. A Great wine for the price. — 9 years ago

David Kline

9.5

Amazing red roses do carnation, raspberry juice, smoky peanut butter cookie, clear cranberry reduction, but light on its feet, and no plastic surgery disasters here. Loamy earth, with honeysuckle and dragonfruit aromas. Seamless entry, strawberry-raspberry-cran with light pepper, graphite and smoke, plummy finish that echoes the roses. — 9 years ago

with Courtney

Jessica Sturman

9.0

Nervy, full of sour cherry, cran-rasb fruit leather, with a strong backbone of acidity, and shores of dark minerality. Lithe. — 9 years ago

Justin Gilman CSW, CSS

9.2

#thanksgiving #Volnay deep crimson with watery delicate surface. Extends to the edge. Ruby crimson Cran variation

The nose is mushroom, damp soil with some asphalt. Brambley Bing cherry, raspberry.

I like the fluidity. Good structure with cranberry type acid. Medium body. Black cherry, more raspberry. The finish is supple and quick.

Opened 11/26/15 — 9 years ago

Mr. Winecountry

9.2

Man this was good. Rasp and cherry cran. Spice. Not your everyday pinot. — 10 years ago

Stephen Rosemire

8.9

Tad reductive to start, blossomed into cran/raspberry and stems with a little mulch and floral touch, cooked collards, fresh and grippy but a little short and bretty on the finish.. We fux with it. — 10 years ago

with Jehan

Colin Heinrich

Sales & Marketing B Wise Vineyards

8.9

Holding strong, great cran & raspberry fruits, a touch of violet and herb, delish. — 11 years ago

Scott Wren

9.2

Ruby color. Cran/straw berries. Light and lip snacking refreshing but not a trifle. Some deep satisfaction in the mouthfeel — 6 years ago

Amy Pelletier Beck

9.5

Easy and bright. Tiny bit of funk and cran-raspberry. — 8 years ago

Bryant Bickel

9.1

Fun! Rustic fruit profile has a touch of the old and the new, touch of cran and herbs, polished texture but higher acidity for its weight, it's pretty fun it has had Pinot aspects some zin aspects to it. — 8 years ago

Yarrow Beydoun

8.9

Savory, cran, raspberry, pomegranate, thyme, red licorice- easy drinking. — 9 years ago

Sean Trapani

Founder/Educator Wine Fluent, Consultant ABC Fine Wines & Spirits

9.0

Lush, syrupy stew of cran-raspberry. Decadent. — 9 years ago

A Pappini

9.1

2004 un cran en dessous du Carbonnieux, mais très réussi. — 9 years ago

Ron from VA

8.9

Having had this one a few times (2012,14), this is one is really finding a nice balance with more time. Fruit is turning away from Pom/Cran toward soft cherry/rasp...medium body and length, this still has nice tannin structure. One bottle remains - Costco $22 — 10 years ago

Andrew

9.0

Light ruby with slight garnet edges. An earthy nose with cranberry and cherry fruit. Light bodied with sour cran/cherry fruit and mushroom. Dry with excellent length. $18. — 10 years ago

David Kline

9.0

Smells like a Reuben on Rye or Bologna or summer sausage. With a strong smell of old pepper. Not unpleasant though. There is also strawberry soda and dusty oak, and a hot, coated grill with toasted cocoanut. The palate is configured in a completely different way, with the steel of the grill replaced with a sweated copper and peppery plum, sugary cran and cast iron, with a black raisin back note. Really an interesting grape! I would love to see this thing done in different styles for comparison, but this is definitely a top offering. Long after the sip, the wine gives you a stripe of bold fruit tannin just across the front teeth that lingers like a grape-induced gap. — 10 years ago

with Courtney

Chris Tanghe

9.8

Rhubarb, cran, very clean. Excellent, best rose I've tasted. — 11 years ago

April Schlanger

9.7

Sexy and brooding like a beautiful man. Lovely cran/rasp , earthy, mushroom aromas. Sexy undertone of flowers. Young on the palate, big beautiful acidity and a long finish. Happy b day too me. — 11 years ago

Thomas Weber

9.0

Solid. Fresh, lively. Citrus and cran on nose. — 8 years ago

MaJ CappS

8.9

Cran-plum nose, with very well integrated boysenberry, hints of Pom, pepper, lime, tannin.
Wow! This wine is indeed perfect for a Monday night game of darts. Bullseye on the price point and producer for quality.
— 8 years ago

Levi Glenn

9.3

Bright cran-cherry nose, with an underlying touch of wood smoke and wet earth. Orange peel and spices too. Light to medium bodied coupled with a juicy mid. Finish is long and the light berry fruit continues to repeat. Acid is present but very cohesive with the other components. This is the real shit. Can't wait to try more. Still young and primary outside of the super expensive nose. Better to hold, but I couldn't wait, and it was great in its infancy. — 9 years ago

TheWineStalker

10

Dark brick red but has excellent clarity. Aromas of violets, moss, tar, maple bacon, cocoa powder and strong ethanol. Medium bodied but extremely high in tannin and acidity. Flavors of cran-grape juice, leather and all those other things on the nose. Finished extremely dry and feeing like you just licked a piece of wood. — 9 years ago

David Kline

9.1

This one grew on me. Took a few hours, but really began to meld. Went from a fruity pulpy strawberry to a rhubarb and green olive nose bursting with carnation and Rose aromas, and a blood orange, smoky raspberry, and cran-apple pudding, without being sweet. Really well crafted. — 9 years ago

with Courtney

Bob Yoon

9.2

On the first day, it's very light and is like a Beaujolais nouveau that you'd actually drink. By the third day, it really bulks up. Wild strawberries with a cran-apple finish that lingers without overstaying its welcome. — 9 years ago

ie

9.0

Brillant and transparent. No oak, as they say, and true to them. Quite closed, but great reticent red berries (cran&straw) cherries and light prunes. Great crushed minerals and dusty limestone tones. Serralunga and it shows it on the palate. Concentrated but elegant, quite big framework but transparent. 2013 still young. 90-92. — 10 years ago

Mark Eastom

9.0

Peppered Beef jerky, pomegranate, prune, fig, tar, fruit leather and smoke and Boysenberry fruit on the nose. raspberry rubber, rhubarb and cran/cherry on the palate. I want duck with a cranberry reduction.. — 10 years ago

Damien Bielle

9.6

Le nez au niveau d'un grand cru, la bouche un cran au-dessous — 10 years ago

Tom Kearney

9.4

Mayolet 2012. Cran-cherried, nice extraction. Prickly well-integrated acidity — 11 years ago