TJaehnigen brought this wine to the DC Coast and Toast dinner last Friday. We had the restaurant decant it for us but it only sat for a half hour before I tried it. The restaurant brought out adequate burgundy glasses for this wine. We saved this this wine to drink with the main course since many ordered seafood dishes and all of the whites were gone.

Archery Summit is one of my favorite Oregon Pinot producers. I hadn't tried the 1999 vintage of this bottle so I was looking forward to it.

Dark ruby red color. Nose of currant and almonds. This was a round ripe wine. Rich fruit flavors of cherry, dark fruit with a nutty character. Those that had the fish thought it matched very well. I think it could have used another year or two in bottle for its elements to unfold a bit more. This was a very nice wine though with a full mouth feel. Elegant. 91-92 points.

VM

VM,

I agree with you about AS wines. I have had the '99 twice now with consistent notes each time. Waiting 2-3 years to open this again will make this wine go from very good to excellent.

Cheers!

IW

P.S. I noticed you only have 4 more posts to go. Should we be doing anything in particular to plan for it?

[ 09-24-2002, 11:49 AM: Message edited by: italian wino ]

Vino Me

Thanks for the notes. Have been trying to get more into US Pinots. If you donot mid how much is it there?

Cheers,
Lrnw

Vino Me -

I have a bottle of the 1999 Archery Summit Red Hills Estate. Do you have any comments on this particular wine? Would you recommend a similar time frame for drinking (e.g, wait another year or two)?

Thanks for any help you may be able to provide.

LRNW- I did not buy this wine but I think it sells for about $35-45 in the US.

Madalex- I haven't had the Red Hills but I would guess that the time frame would be about the same. The window for drinking Oregon Pinots is much smaller than Cabs.

VM

Have any of you had the '99 Arcus Estate? I have been looking around for some with little success.

Dick

Agree with these TN's, especially the elegant comment. Mrs. RL and I enjoyed a bottle of this about a week ago, and found this bottle very pleasing. Good enough to pick up another.

This is currently available in Florida ABC stores for $30.99 and an addtional 10% discount on Mon and Thurs for discount card members.

rbond444: The Arcus Estate was released quite early, so the 99 will be hard to find at this point in time. I have tasted it twice, and cannot understand the WS score of 95. Plus, the ridiculous price of $75.00. Archery Summit has always priced themselves above the the market until Gary Andrus sold out, so things are more sane now.

Love the 99 and agree a little more time would help it.
Had the 2000 at a tasting last night and it was very tight and lacking in forward fruit. Certainly no match for the 1999 -- yet. Hope it develops, otherwise I wouldn't reach for it.
And another tasting aside . . . had the 1999 Andrus twice, just to make sure. The wine should have been decanted, but wasn't. It should have tasted better but didn't. At $140 a pop it's humongously overpriced plonk, light on the fruit, but missing the tannin that shouts "age me.''
This baby shouted "ignore me.''

Here are my notes from the DC COast & Toast thread, for posterity--

They brought us bigger stems for this, thankfully. This wine is wonderful. Classy & finesseful. Really nice fruits – currants and a hint of brambly frutis. The wine can make you wiggle and waggle it’s so good.

91+ points

Let me add that I think in another year or two, this will be even better. Glad I loaded up on a case and a bit on this.