Not a terrible bottle for a Tuesday night. Coincidentally, was discussing the 1998 vintage with the Cristom team today. Steve's recollection: cool July, nice Indian summer mid-September, provided a lot of good acidity. Obviously that had tapered off somewhat in this bottle, but in its wake was a bit of anise, tea, dusty fig - pretty much all the lovely things you want to say about a library Eyrie and sound like an asshat no matter what. Lovely pour.
Not a terrible bottle for a Tuesday night. Coincidentally, was discussing the 1998 vintage with the Cristom team today. Steve's recollection: cool July, nice Indian summer mid-September, provided a lot of good acidity. Obviously that had tapered off somewhat in this bottle, but in its wake was a bit of anise, tea, dusty fig - pretty much all the lovely things you want to say about a library Eyrie and sound like an asshat no matter what. Lovely pour.
Jul 15th, 2015
Always one of the top Willamette Pinots. This showed a great earthy, secondary characteristic to go with its rounded and fading strawberry/blueberry fruit.
Always one of the top Willamette Pinots. This showed a great earthy, secondary characteristic to go with its rounded and fading strawberry/blueberry fruit.
Feb 6th, 2016
Willamette Valley, Oregon, USA
