• Smells like bubble gum initially with dark berries in the middle followed my mint at the finish.
• Taste is very tart.
• One dimensional plumb flavors.  Improved greatly with decanting.
• This wine is easy to drink and does not offend… Sort of like a macro-brewed beer… it feels mass produced to appeal to a wide variety of tastes.

• Smells of plumb off the nose.
• Deep dark and rich colors.
• Tastes dark fruit and spice with prune at the end.
• Out of the bottle it was very harsh, but much nicer after decanting.
• This wine is like a crazy Uncle that says a lot of outlandish things… yet every once in a while, comes up with a comment that really displays a lot of wisdom.

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• Aromas of wet moss, cherry, peaches. Very pleasant fruit smells.
• Tastes very smooth in the mouth with just the right tannins.
• Oak and natural wood with a hint of pipe tobacco.  Black cherry finish.
• Exotic and intriguing like a midnight walk on the beach with someone you just met and may never see again… sad but undeniably memorable.
  

• Aromas of earth and deep dark berries
• Soft and smooth in the mouth
• Strong tannins in the finish giving it a tart cranberry taste
• Interesting yet unrefined.  Like a sports car that is a little too loud both in engine sound and color…it may put some people off yet who knows…in a few years it has the potential of being a classic…

• Aromas of earth and moss with wood undertones
• Earthy taste, with toasted oak.
• Very similar to the Cabernet which was unexpected for a Pinot.
• Non-typical Pinot, but very enjoyable.
• Not your typical Pinot, but typical of Cellar No 8 wines.  Rustic, hard and very masculine – like a Pinot on steroids.  It has the feeling of a female body builder, you know she is a women but muscles are way bigger than yours!

• Aromas were complex, interesting, and inviting.
• Scents of ripe juicy blackberry with a slight undertone of spearmint.
• Fairly dry but balanced quite well with flavors of fruit.
• Concentrated and deep and the blackberry aromas continue in the tastes.
• Medium to long finish that is very pleasant.
• Much smother in the mouth than the 2007.
• Great tannins and an excellent value for this price-point.
• Flavorful and interesting and at such an affordable price.  This wine is like walking into a store and finding a 50 dollar bill on the way in.  You go in and use that bill and feel so good because it feels like such a bargain.

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• Thin, bland and watery
• Slightest hint of red fruits such as cranberry
• Very one dimensional with a finish that disappears immediately
• Color is very light and the aromas are almost non existent.
• This is not what a Pinot should be….It is boring and ordinary, bordering on undrinkable.  It is kind of like being set up on a blind date and the girl that answers the door is attractive and alluring.  The only problem is she says…hang on I will let my sister know you are here and then down walks the ugly duckling of the family…ya want to be nice but you know this is not going to end well.

Justagrape.com was provided a complementary bottle of this wine directly from Fresh & Easy and was not compensated for this review.

• Initially the open bottle gave no aromas after opening.
• After pouring the bottle into the decanter it smelled like motor oil (yes! motor oil!)
• Very dry, bland and watery with moderately high tannins in the finish even after decanting.
• A fraud and a slacker.  This wine is like the guy you know that dresses up and acts like he is going to work at his high powered job… in reality it ends up changing its clothes in the car once it is out of sight and spends the day driving around the doing nothing.

• Rich aromas of campfire and leather.
• Hints of vanilla off the start.
• Tastes of cherry with a nice lingering finish.
• Real nice balance of fruit & earth.
• Subtle hint of chocolate.
• A great wine to have with any meal.  Hard working and blue collar like a steel town man that gets up every day and provides for his family.  He is not pretentious and he does not brag about the job he does…..he just does it and does it well.

• Strong cherry aromas with a hint of pine.
• Flavors of oak and smoke with the pine coming in at the end.
• The label says that the tannins linger – and they really mean it!
• Decant this bottle for as long as you can!
• Like the person who you think is really cool when you first meet them… but not so much when you get to know then…  They are only tolerable with many other people around.