Jules Taylor OTQ Pinot Noir 2013
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Blend: 100% Pinot Noir
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James Suckling
Plenty of complexity and oak influence here, but this is more settled than the regular Jules Taylor 2013 pinot noir. There's an impressive sore of ripe, dark purple stone fruit as well as handy spices and perfume. The palate is fresh and has a sleeve of plump, ripe dark cherries and boysenberries. The tannins have a stony, savory edge to them and there's a neat surge of flavor that holds focused through the finish. Drink now.
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Wine Enthusiast
Purists might be inclined to say this wine is too oaky, but this reviewer believes there's ample substance to support the flash. Cedar and vanilla are apparent, but the dominating characteristics of this wine are its ripe fruit and plush texture.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Medium ruby-purple in color, the 2013 Otq Pinot Noir has an aromatic core of warm black cherry, black plum and mulberry notes showing plenty of toasty / cedary nuances on an oak-laced nose. Medium-bodied with great concentration of black berries, spice and earthy flavors, the oak is not as prominent on the palate or in the long, earthy finish.
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Creating honest, tasty, fruit-packed Marlborough wines is what Jules does best. Her wine is for people who laugh. People who sing, dance, feast and celebrate. People who sit out on the back deck solving the world’s problems.
Born in Marlborough in the year the first vines were planted, Jules has literally grown up with Sauvignon Blanc. Deeply invested in the region and its grape growing families, she has made some of Marlborough’s best known and successful wines.
Several life-affirming vintages in Italy underscored Jules’ love of wine as a simple pleasure to be enjoyed alongside good food and great friends. Jules strongly believes wine should be more about creating great memories and less about status or cellaring potential.
Today, Jules makes her harvesting decisions in the vineyard, purely by taste rather than by laboratory analyses. Come harvest time, you’ll find Jules relentlessly walking the rows of each vineyard, tasting berries for days on end, searching for the perfect flavor profile.
Jules left her corporate winemaking career behind to give her the freedom to make wines the way she thinks they should be made. No matter the cost, Jules will only release a wine if she is entirely satisfied it has met her standards. She only makes one batch of each wine every harvest. So, enjoy it while you can. Once it’s gone, it’s well and truly gone.
Every bottle of Jules Taylor wine is, in our humble opinion, exceptional. Jules only makes top notch wines and she guarantees this personally when she puts her name on the bottle. They are great memories in a bottle, created with sunshine from Marlborough and love from Jules.