The January 2021 Auction: Part 2
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Estimate: $40
Very lightly torn, lightly scuffed, nicked label.
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94WSM
"There's a complex, dynamic wine at the core of this pinot, needing plenty of air or several years of bottle age to show itself. Over the course of several days, the wine transforms from taut red raspberry and some funky reduction toward lovely, expressive depths of flavor. It has the ping of perfectly ripe black-cherry skin, built on that sweet tannin to last . . ."
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"There's a complex, dynamic wine at the core of this pinot, needing plenty of air or several years of bottle age to show itself. Over the course of several days, the wine transforms from taut red raspberry and some funky reduction toward lovely, expressive depths of flavor. It has the ping of perfectly ripe black-cherry skin, built on that sweet tannin to last . . ."
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