Cobb Wines Coastlands Vineyard 1906 Block Pommard Pinot Noir 2014
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
A prodigious Pinot Noir, the 2014 Cobb Coastlands Vineyard:1906 Block Pommard nearly took my breath away at a recent trade tasting. I was happily tasting an already great lineup of Cobb wines spanning more than a decade's time before I came upon this wine. It is deep, dark, and brooding and offers tremendous ripe fruits—red, blue, and blackberries come to mind. Its long and luxurious palate makes it an exceptional candidate with grilled lamb chops accented with garlic, rosemary, and crushed black peppercorns. (Tasted: August 7, 2017, San Francisco, CA)
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Wine Enthusiast
This lightly bodied, elegant wine is subtle and crisp—a study in white pepper and leather that’s both complex and tightly layered. Cool climate to its core, it shows floral aromas and flavors of rose petal and lavender as hints of rhubarb and tart cherry make their way onto the quiet palate.
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Founded in 2001, Cobb make wines from single-vineyard sites on the Pacific coast. Despite being mostly situated above the cooling fog layer, this is one of the coolest spots for Pinot Noir in all of California. This wine is sourced from a small plot of Pommard-clone Pinot Noir, planted in 1998 within the larger Coastlands Vineyard. It spent 22 months in French oak, 30% new. It's a delightfully juicy and succulent style, not too ripe and not too savoury. It has chocolate-and-herb-tinged red berry fruit and just a hint of salinity. It's pure, fresh and long.
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James Suckling
Vivid aromas of crushed strawberry and cherry. Hints of mushroom. Full body, dense fruit with plenty of citrus underneath. Pretty tension to this. Hints of white pepper. Drink or hold.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Pale ruby, the 2014 Pinot Noir Coastlands Vineyard 1906 Block Mount Eden opens with some matchstick-like aromas on the nose with notes of tar, aniseed and woodsmoke. The medium-bodied palate is firm with earthy fruits and tarry nuances. Give this a long decant.
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The Sonoma Coast AVA is large in area but, not counting overlapping regions like Russian River Valley, only has a few thousand acres of grapevines—and it’s no wonder. Much of the region is rugged and not easily accessible. Its proximity to the Pacific Ocean’s fog and cool breezes limits the varieties that can be cultivated, but it proves to be an ideal environment for high quality Pinot Noir.
Since fog is a frequent fact of life here, as are heavy marine layers that sometimes bring rain, the best vineyards are wisely planted above the fog line, on picturesque ridges that capture enough sun to provide even ripening. That, with the overnight drop in temperature that reliably preserves acidity, results in fine expressions of Pinot Noir that often receive tremendous critic and consumer praise alike, and are often in high demand.