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Tudor Wines 2007 Pinot Noir (Santa Lucia Highlands)
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- $40
A very good Pinot Noir. Shows just what you want in a fine coastal bottling, with a smooth, silky texture, crisp acidity, and fine, delicate but powerful flavors. In this case, the wine shows cool-climate notes of raspberries, cherries and red currants, with umami, salty smoked meat and oak-inspired vanilla toast complexities. Drink now–2013.
— S.H.
(12/15/2010)
Tudor Wines 2007 Tondré Reserve Pinot Noir (Santa Lucia Highlands)
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- $60
This is a really beautiful Pinot Noir. It’s rich in flavor, but also strong in structure, with good acidity and firm, dry tannins framing a silky texture. The flavors suggest raspberries, cherries and vanilla cream, accented with smoky sweet oak. Drink now.
— S.H.
(12/15/2010)
Tudor Wines 2006 Sarmento Vineyard Pinot Noir (Santa Lucia Highlands)
- $60
Beautiful and immediately appealing, showing cool-climate coastal acidity and the long hangtime flavors this Central Coast appellation encourages. Dry and silky but full-bodied, the jammy black cherry, currant, tangerine, mocha and spice flavors are wrapped into firm tannins. Best now with decanting, and through 2010.
— S.H.
(2/1/2009)
Tudor Wines 2000 Pinot Noir (Santa Lucia Highlands)
- $35
Here’s a rich and tasty regional Pinot Noir. It is not especially complex, but is well-structured, with lush but soft tannins and crisp coastal acidity. The flavors are in a nice tension between berries and cherries and earthier herbal notes. Goes down like silk, and will pair well with a wide range of foods.
— S.H.
(12/1/2003)
Tudor Wines 2003 Pinot Noir (Santa Lucia Highlands)
- $35
Size marks this wine. It’s huge in flavor, swamping the palate with black and red cherries, pomegranates, sweet rhubarb pie, coffee and vanilla. At the same time, it’s fairly light in color, and certainly light and silky in body, with crisp acids. Shows enough complexity to serve with your finest entrées.
— S.H.
(12/1/2005)
Tudor Wines 2004 Pinot Noir (Santa Lucia Highlands)
- $40
Tudor does a good job interpreting Santa Lucia Pinot. This is a big, intensely fruity wine, bold and in-your-face with cherries, raspberries, cola and carob flavors, with the silky elegance that Pinot demands. It’s a little obvious. But it’s easy to imagine drinking this with a great steak in a fine restaurant. The wine shifts and changes as it warms in the glass.
— S.H.
(5/1/2007)
Tudor Wines 2007 Balo Vineyard Pinot Noir (Anderson Valley)
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- $60
A good, dry Pinot Noir, tart in acidity, and showing flavors of sour cherries, currants and beef jerky, sweetened with caramelized oak. It’s a little rustic, but elegant. Drink now.
— S.H.
(12/15/2010)
Tudor Wines 2000 Tondre Vineyard Pinot Noir (Santa Lucia Highlands)
- $25
Very tasty, but simpler in structure and content to Tudor’s regular Pinot. Opens with cola, raspberry and white chocolate aromas that lead to very deliciously ripe candy-jammy flavors of raspberries and spice. Seductive in its way, a silky smooth wine of great charm.
— S.H.
(12/1/2003)
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