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The September 2023 Auction: Part 1
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"The 2016 Pinot Noir Thieriot Vineyard Estate is fabulous. Bright, perfumed and finely sculpted, the Thieriot captures all the potential I sensed last year when I tasted it from barrel. As always, the Thieriot is a wine of tension, power and salivating energy. More than that though, the Thieriot oozes character. As usual, Ted Lemon offers terrific perspective that comes from both experience and working across a number of sites in both Sonoma and Anderson Valley. Lemon told me he saw more fruit that needed to be sorted out because of heat in Anderson Valley than in Sonoma. '2017 was a warm year,' Ted Lemon opined. 'But I also saw many days with wider temperature gradients from coastal to inland sites than I am used to.' As for the wines, they are superb. Among the 2017s, my impression is that the Pinots have a bit more potential than the Chardonnays. The Wendling in particular is shaping up to be a real gem. The bottled 2016s have turned out as I had expected."
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"The 2016 Pinot Noir Thieriot Vineyard Estate is fabulous. Bright, perfumed and finely sculpted, the Thieriot captures all the potential I sensed last year when I tasted it from barrel. As always, the Thieriot is a wine of tension, power and salivating energy. More than that though, the Thieriot oozes character. As usual, Ted Lemon offers terrific perspective that comes from both experience and working across a number of sites in both Sonoma and Anderson Valley. Lemon told me he saw more fruit that needed to be sorted out because of heat in Anderson Valley than in Sonoma. '2017 was a warm year,' Ted Lemon opined. 'But I also saw many days with wider temperature gradients from coastal to inland sites than I am used to.' As for the wines, they are superb. Among the 2017s, my impression is that the Pinots have a bit more potential than the Chardonnays. The Wendling in particular is shaping up to be a real gem. The bottled 2016s have turned out as I had expected."
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