TN: 2000 St. Innocent, 2005 Ridge Geyservile

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Loren Sonkin

Loren Sonkin
2000 St. Innocent Pinot Noir Shea Vineyard
Ruby in color, clear and bright. The nose is great. Slightly earthy, a bit of fresh cherries and some candied cherry. Complex. Medium bodied. On the palate, this is good, not as good as the nose, but good. Cherries, earthy with layered complexity. This seems fully mature, but with plenty of time left. Its at a nice juxtaposition with aged flavors and still some fruit left. The finish is a bit tart, but not bad.

2005 Ridge Geyserville
From a .375. Purple in color with some ruby swirls. The nose is monolithic at this point. Lots of fruit, and very nice, but not much else. On the palate, this is still in a fruit bomb Zin stage. Nothing wrong or unexpected in that. Some jammy red and black raspberries, a bit of peppery bramble. Nice finish. Just what I expected when I opened it.

Nice to open bottles and get exactly what I was looking for, especially after a hard week.
 
Thanks for the snapshots Loren. I have a bunch of the '98 and '99 versions of the Shea and a few '05 Geyservilles laying about.
 
originally posted by Dan McQ:
Thanks for the snapshots Loren. I have a bunch of the '98 and '99 versions of the Shea and a few '05 Geyservilles laying about.
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I am holding off on my 99's. The 00's seemed like a less ageworthy vintage.
 
I brought an '01 St. Innocent Shea to Toledo that was horrifically flawed. Sourced directly from the winery.

At least it wasn't corked, or at least I couldn't smell the TCA through whatever the hell else was wrong with it. A 40% corked rate would have been too much to stomach - 33% was bad enough, thanks. Yes, I am still bitching about that. My apologies.

Cheers,

Dave
 
originally posted by Dave Nelson:
I brought an '01 St. Innocent Shea to Toledo that was horrifically flawed. Sourced directly from the winery.

At least it wasn't corked, or at least I couldn't smell the TCA through whatever the hell else was wrong with it. A 40% corked rate would have been too much to stomach - 33% was bad enough, thanks. Yes, I am still bitching about that. My apologies.
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Dave, believe me, I feel your pain. Bringing a corked wine to a jeebus is akin to rupturing a condom mid-application: it kills the fun in an instant. And you, my man, had the misfortune of bringing not one, not even two, but three wines to Toledo that proved to be corked. You deserve a goddamn medal or something. A purple heart, maybe. That one corked Huet was enough to feel like a blow to the solar plexus for me. I can only dimly imagine what it would have been like to have three of those experiences all bundled into one happy, TCA-fest.

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by MLipton:
And you, my man, had the misfortune of bringing not one, not even two, but three wines to Toledo that proved to be corked.
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We can inscribe your name on the medal right next to the Liquidator's....
 
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