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The 2006 Melville Pinot Noir from Sta. Rita Hills is a highly-rated wine known for its complexity, rich fruit flavors, and elegant profile. While the vintage is a bit older, reviews suggest it was a successful year for the region, showing smooth tannins and fresh fruit. Specific reviews mention flavors of cherry, plum, and currant, with notes of spice, earth, and eucalyptus, and it's often praised for being both powerful and elegant. 93/100 Robert Parker: "The most impressive Pinot Noir for immediate drinking (but certainly capable of lasting a decade as well) is the 2006 Pinot Noir Melville. Sweet floral notes intermixed with black raspberry, black cherry, damp earth, and roasted herbs are followed by a wine with terrific purity, a layered, full-bodied mouth feel, and sweet tannin (the ripest tannins of any of these Pinots). This wine should drink very well young as well as much older."  "Here's a big, rich, full-bodied and rather extracted wine, made in a powerful style. It shows a gamut of well-ripened cherry, blackberry pie, licorice, grilled wild mushroom and forest floor components, with significant tannins." 15.1% alc.,        Wine Enthusiast 92/100

Variety :Pinot Noir; 14,5% All 92/100 Wine Enthusiast Excellent , Highly recommended 2006 Vintage Tasted: Jan 2008 Entirely off the estate, this polished young Pinot offers a complex mélange of flavors, in a balanced structure. The tastes of root beer, red currants, licorice, gingersnap cookie and sweet oak are frankly delicious. 

Variety :Pinot Noir; 14,5%  Style: Light and perfumed, with semisweet notes. Tasting Notes: Ripe cherry, raspberry, vanilla, and caramel. Origin: San Luis Obispo County, Central Coast, California.  89/100 Wine Enthusiast  The Ovene Winery 2005 "The Puzzle" Pinot Noir is a lighter, simpler wine with ripe cherry and raspberry flavors with vanilla and caramel oak influences, notes Wine Enthusiast.