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Estimate: $170
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"This is going to be quite exciting to follow . . . . Antica Terra’s 2010 Pinot Noir Antikythera – none other than their flagship estate bottling, but under a new name and strikingly clever and intriguing label – comprised just under 200 cases and employed a mere 20% selection of the estate vineyard’s fruit, the rest having been utilized in their other cuvées. (By contrast – no doubt happily – there will be some 475 cases of the 2011, slated for release around the time this report appears, but not available to me for pre-release tasting, although I tasted the promising 2011 components from this site extensively from barrel in June of last year.) This is almost dramatically pungent in its evocation of game, forest floor, sweat, and toasted carob, as well as saline, alkaline ocean spray. To be sure, there is fruit, too: tartly red-berried, its acids buffered by sheer density of material and allied to fine-grained, sinewy tannins in a synergistically invigorating finish."
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"This is going to be quite exciting to follow . . . . Antica Terra’s 2010 Pinot Noir Antikythera – none other than their flagship estate bottling, but under a new name and strikingly clever and intriguing label – comprised just under 200 cases and employed a mere 20% selection of the estate vineyard’s fruit, the rest having been utilized in their other cuvées. (By contrast – no doubt happily – there will be some 475 cases of the 2011, slated for release around the time this report appears, but not available to me for pre-release tasting, although I tasted the promising 2011 components from this site extensively from barrel in June of last year.) This is almost dramatically pungent in its evocation of game, forest floor, sweat, and toasted carob, as well as saline, alkaline ocean spray. To be sure, there is fruit, too: tartly red-berried, its acids buffered by sheer density of material and allied to fine-grained, sinewy tannins in a synergistically invigorating finish."
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A thin-skinned, terroir-sensitive red producing perfumed, silky and elegant wines of red-berry fruit and earthy complexity. It reaches its apogee in Burgundy.