Domaine Nicolas-Jay Pinot Noir Temperance Hill Vineyard

A bit hot/alcoholic for my taste, but decent complexity to warrant this score. despite a tight structure, this wine might be fantastic with 5 more years in the cellar. We will see...

Coravined and followed for a few weeks. Tight, and muted for the first couple hours in the glass. High acid. Opened up to show crunchy red fruit--cherry, and raspberry. Fine grain tannins and trace minerals on the medium finish. Structured and refined. I'd love to try this with 5 more years of bottle age. Brighter and more red fruited than the 2019 Momtazi. 93+

Medium bodied, raspberry, beautiful finish

Absolutely gorgeous Pinot. Did not need decanting.

Truly gorgeous, voluptuous and lush but also very precise, and fairly complex. Really embodies that rare category of dark fruit/bright elegance. This is toward the higher end of Willamette Valley pricing but I think it easily commands it (and I could be underrating it)- what it might lack in "precision" it easily makes up for with blissful harmony. At this early stage it feels mostly about a couple of specific things rather than a super complicated and multi-tiered profile. That …

this was very open and ready to go unlike some of the other NJ bottlings; red berry fruits, spice, a hint of violet; good depth; super easy to enjoy