Wednesday, 4 August 2010

Mondavi pinot noir 2008

Grabbed this from majestic on offer at a tenner from 15. None left now, a real shame.
This one surprised me a lot having never really been into wines from USA. Expecting the usual peppery spicey lightly coloured wine which typifies pinot noirs (that i have drunk), this was deep coloured like a cab sauv and tasted like 20 quid + chateaneuf or maybe a classy burgundy.
Beautifully coherant wine with enough tannins, fruit, cigar box aromatics.

9/10 - a shame there is none left. think montes alpha cab sauv, with less power and a bit more together.

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