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Goldeneye 2007 Ten Degrees Pinot Noir (Anderson Valley)
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- $100
This is a best barrel blend of Goldeneye’s several vineyards. It takes its beautifully ripe fruit from Confluence and the tannins of The Narrows to yield a dry, densely constructed and moderately ageable wine of exceptionally high quality and appeal. Blackberries, blueberries, cherries and exotic spices characterize the flavors of this tremendous wine, one of the…
— S.H.
(3/1/2011)
Goldeneye 2007 Confluence Vineyard Pinot Noir (Anderson Valley)
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- $75
A spectacular Pinot, continuing a string of great vintages from this little vineyard. The year 2007 gave California supernaturally rich but balanced Pinot Noirs, and this is one of them. It’s sensational, offering broad, exotic fruit flavors, pinpointed with exotic spices, and exquisitely highlighted with French oak. Truly fine, this small-production wine should…
— S.H.
(3/1/2011)
Goldeneye 2007 The Narrows Vineyard Pinot Noir (Anderson Valley)
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- $75
This is a big Pinot Noir, dark and full bodied and juicy in pomegranates, cherries, red plums and sautéed wild mushrooms, and the interplay of oak with fruit even yields richer notes of milk chocolate. It’s devastatingly good, but also too young and fresh now to show its best. With its fine tannins and exquisite balance, this articulate young wine should be best…
— S.H.
(3/1/2011)
Goldeneye 2004 The Narrows Vineyard Pinot Noir (Anderson Valley)
- $70
This luscious Pinot shows the appellation’s ability to perfectly ripen the fruit while maintaining complete balance. The flavors are of cherries, raspberries, currants and cola, with nuances of licorice and gingerbread, yet for all that the finish is totally dry. So powerful is the wine in itself that it easily shoulders the 100% new French oak, which pushes the…
— S.H.
(12/15/2007)
Goldeneye 2005 Confluence Vineyard Pinot Noir (Anderson Valley)
- $75
The vineyard has been the source to some of Goldeneye’s deepest, most profound wines, and the ’05 certainly is big and cellar-worthy. It’s somewhat tannic, and very deep in black cherries and blackberries, with rich complexities of figs, dusty spices and smoky oak. The power of this wine is considerable, yet it somehow retains the light silkiness of great Pinot Noir.
— S.H.
(7/1/2008)
Goldeneye 2006 Gowan Creek Vineyard Pinot Noir (Anderson Valley)
- $75
There’s a wild, feral quality to this fine Pinot Noir. It has forest flavors of wild mushrooms, thyme, fennel, anise and pine, along with more familiar flavors of red cherries, cola and sandalwood. Elegant and ageable. Now through 2012.
— S.H.
(9/1/2009)
Goldeneye 2006 Confluence Vineyard Pinot Noir (Anderson Valley)
- $75
An extraordinary wine, although it’s very young and thick now and needs time in the bottle. Totally dry, it shows elaborate flavors of cherries, raspberries, cocoa and sandalwood, with exotic notes of wild fennel, violets and nutmeg. Distinctive and compelling.
— S.H.
(9/1/2009)
Goldeneye 2004 Confluence Vineyard Pinot Noir (Anderson Valley)
- $70
The wine is a beauty. Dry, silky and pure in red cherry, raspberry, red currant and cola flavors, it was aged 16 months in 100% new French oak barrels, which give an appropriate measure of smoky caramel. With a sturdy acid-tannin structure, this supple Pinot classically exhibits the best of Anderson Valley terroir. Drink this in its flashy youth, over the next five…
— S.H.
(12/15/2007)
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