Mission Hill Reserve Pinot Noir 2011, VQA Okanagan Valley
Pinot Noir
British Columbia, Canada
$24.95 (545012)
Critic Reviews (4)
This is an edgy, intense pinot with lifted aromas of cran-currant fruit, sage/thyme herbs, light wood smoke and dried...
Here's a juicy plum wine with noticeable warm alcohol that goes subterranean and won't make you homesick for alien...
Smells like pinot... yeah! Mission Hill has done a fine job evolving its pinot noir and the 2011 is a case in point....
This wine has improved since I first tasted in march of 2013, with oak becoming much better integrated and allowing...
Community Reviews (2)
2016?? nice but not buying more
now! 2019
July 2019....didn't have that favourable an impression from the first one but I quite enjoyed this second one, perhaps it just matured into a happy boy. A full flavoured pinot....I would probably buy this again.
This wine is classic BC Pinot — some earthy, slightly foxy notes as well as raspberry and tart cherry notes on the nose, with ripe red fruit notes and modest herbal notes on the medium-bodied palate. It's juicy, with a bit of weight and complexity thanks to some tasty spice notes.