'99 Willakenzie Pinot Noir "Aliette"

[ddf68]

'99 Willakenzie Pinot Noir "Aliette"
Saturated purple color w a strong nose of red fruits and oak. Plenty of brambly fruit on the palate somewhere between black and red, call it black raspberry, with a faint mineral note that with aeration grew distinctly flinty. Good length and ripe tannin on the finish. This was fat, rich, and very tasty.

The rest of the bottle on day two showed a lot differently--baby fat and minerals were gone, leaving behind a lean but dense core of pure black cherry. I sometimes find Willakenzie Pinot(esp. their clonal selections)to be too big and oaky, but this is a promising bottle.

ddf