2015 Mount Eden Estate Pinot Noir

A unique California Pinot Noir with Burgundian fruit characteristics, enhanced by smoke and pepper, that benefits from aging and offers great value.

Producer

Mount Eden Winery

Region

Santa Cruz Mountains, CA

Country

USA

Varietal

Pinot Noir

Varietal Composition

100% Pinot Noir

Specifications

2015

Vintage

2038

Drink By

ABV

Vinification

Aged in French oak (50% new) and bottled unfined and unfiltered

Occasional wine note

This is not your normal California Pinot Noir. It's not really a normal Pinot period. The fruit is more what you'd expect from a Burgundian style Pinot, but then you add in that smoke and pepper and what? It works very well. We would definitely recommend that you let this one sit as even at 8 years old now, it seems to still need a bit of time. Great value for such a stunning wine.

What experts say about this wine

100

Wine Enthusiast

Brilliantly fresh and snappy black raspberry aromas lead into a savory streak of mulberry-laced pork fat, hickory and tobacco smoke, with a hint of crushed slate on this wine’s fascinating and shape-shifting nose. Peppery spice grips the palate immediately, then splashes fresh red plum and pomegranate flavors around, finishing on white pepper, cracked nutmeg and unrelenting tension.

100

Jeb Dunnuck

Seeing roughly one-third whole clusters and a mix of new and neutral oak, the 2015 Pinot Noir Estate is another terrific wine from this benchmark estate. Possessing a more structured, backward feel as well as a deep, powerful nose of black currants, charcoal, and scorched earth, this is a serious, age-worthy Pinot Noir that needs 3-4 years of bottle age yet will see its 20th birthday in fine form.

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