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Bruliam 2009 Doctor's Vineyard Pinot Noir (Santa Lucia Highlands)
- Cellar Selection
- $52
The high score reflects the wine’s potential, because it has been put on the market before it’s ready to be opened. Fresh and zippy in acidity, its flavors are of raspberry and cherry pie filling, while sweet, caramelized oak has not yet been integrated. Cellar it for a year or two, even longer. It should be quite a beautiful wine by the end of 2012.
— S.H.
(5/1/2011)
Bruliam 2008 Doctor's Vineyard Pinot Noir (Santa Lucia Highlands)
- $52
Tasted at a little more than a year of age, this Pinot Noir is a bit brusque. It should have been held back for another six months, to let the tannins, fruit and oak knit together. With very rich black cherry, black raspberry, cola and sweet smoky oak flavors, it should begin to resolve by late Fall 2010, and provide pleasant drinking for another 3–4 years.
— S.H.
(5/1/2010)
Bruliam 2009 Hayley Vineyard Pinot Noir (Anderson Valley)
- Cellar Selection
- $52
It’s a shame this young wine was released well before it’s anywhere near ready to be consumed. But it was, with the result that it’s all fresh tannins, acidity and jammy raspberries, cherries and cola. Tastes simple and candied now, but if you give it a year or two, it should start to come around.
— S.H.
(5/1/2011)
Bruliam 2009 Split Rock Vineyard Pinot Noir (Sonoma Coast)
- Cellar Selection
- $52
Seems rushed to market. The wine is still rough, and tannic and acidic, with fresh raspberry and cherry fruit flavors overlaid with sweet oak. Quite good and distinguished, but if you buy it, stash it in the cellar until sometime in 2012 or even 2013.
— S.H.
(5/1/2011)
Bruliam 2009 Rocky Ridge Vineyard Bu Zinfandel (Rockpile)
- $35
A big, brawny, powerhouse of a Zin, packed with wild berry, currant, beef jerky, smoky cedar and pepper spice flavors. Entirely dry, but with a sweet heat from alcohol, it’s a fine wine to down with almost anything off the grill.
— S.H.
(12/31/2011)
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