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Wine Details
Price:
$40.00 per bottle
Description:
500 cases produced. This is a new wine for Bethel Heights, a blended Reserve Pinot Noir that bears a family name rather than a place name, breaking with our twenty-year tradition of celebrating the unique characteristics of very site-specific pinot noirs. It is composed of fruit from Bethel Heights Wädenswil Block, Bethel Heights Flat Block, and Seven Springs Vineyard, in about equal parts. In blending this wine we watched lots that we knew were terrific stand-alone wines disappear into a new wine that has its own character and exceptional quality. "The 2002 Pinot Noir Casteel Reserve is a superb debut for this new label. Its sublime aromatics burst with flowers, spices, and copious quantities of dark fruits. Expansive, ample, and wonderfully harmonious, its concentrated, deep character offers loads of highly expressive violet, rose, cherry, blackberry, and blueberry flavors. Having tasted Bethel Heights's wines from each individual vineyard included in this blend, there is no doubt in my mind that the sum is greater than the individual parts." (93) Wine Advocate
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