92 pts - Wine Advocate
The only wine in this vertical that showed considerable amber at the edge as well as an evolved, totally mature character, the 1999 Pinot Noir reveals a dark plum/garnet color with amber at the edge along with notes of sweet black currants, fresh mushrooms and a mossy, foresty character. It offers excellent concentration and richness, and sweet tannin. While fully mature and extremely well-made, it is not as broad, savory, complex and profound as other vintages. Nevertheless, on its own, this is a beauty. It should be drunk over the next 3-5 years. - WA, RP (6/2014)
94 pts - Wine Spectator
Medium garnet in color, smooth and supple on the palate, this is an elegant, delicate style that slowly builds intensity and richness, offering hints of sage, black cherry, candied apple and pretty floral and tealike nuances that pick up a trace of beef carpaccio. Long, focused aftertaste has lots of flavor. Drink now through 2009. 418 cases made. — JL (06/2004)
N/A pts - Vinous
Medium red; like the Blue-Slide Ridge, a bit dull. Distinctly oxidative nose dominated by smoked meat, maple syrup and nutty oak. Thick, silky and large-scaled but tired, with broad flavors of spice cake and maple syrup. Tastes like a very old Burgundy. (A second bottle was distinctly dry-edged on the finish.) These two '99 pinots, unmanipulated and alive with micro-organisms, may well have been bottled with insufficient sulfur.- Stephen Tanzer (05/2004)
