1999 Marcassin Pinot Noir Marcassin Vineyard
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The only wine in this vertical that showed considerable amber at the edge as well as an evolved, totally mature character, the 1999 Pinot Noir reveals a dark plum/garnet color with amber at the edge along with notes of sweet black currants, fresh mushrooms and a mossy, foresty character. It offers excellent concentration and richness, and sweet tannin. While fully mature and extremely well-made, it is not as broad, savory, complex and profound as other vintages. Nevertheless, on its own, this is a beauty. It should be drunk over the next 3-5 years.
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Jeff Leve, The Wine Cellar Insider
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Medium red; like the Blue-Slide Ridge, a bit dull. Distinctly oxidative nose dominated by smoked meat, maple syrup and nutty oak. Thick, silky and large-scaled but tired, with broad flavors of spice cake and maple syrup. Tastes like a very old Burgundy. (A second bottle was distinctly dry-edged on the finish.) These two '99 pinots, unmanipulated and alive with micro-organisms, may well have been bottled with insufficient sulfur.