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Arterberry Maresh

$57.95 Regular

$52.16
in any 12 bottle order or Build a Case

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Wine Advocate 91 Points

Review:

Every vintage, Jim Maresh has a surprise up his sleeve. This year, it's his Weber Vineyard Pinot. Holy sh*t this is good! The most evolved and showy of the 2010s, this opens with an awesome array of sweet red fruit, spiced orange, cinnamon stick and anise. The flavors are expansive and velvety, delving into the spectrum of darker red fruit. Elegant power.

Weber Vineyard is a stone's throw southeast of Maresh Vineyard. They are some of the oldest vineyards in the area and were planted by Arthur and Vivian Weber in 1976, with some assistance by Martha Maresh (Jim's Mom.) Jim's Weber Pinot is 100% Pommard clone. 12.8% alcohol.

2010 Wine Advocate - 91 points - From a 1983 planting and a first for Jim Maresh, his 2010 Pinot Noir Weber Vineyard reflects in its resinous, herbal, and tartly red-fruited character an eastern exposure that gets next to no afternoon sun. Licorice, horehound, spruce, raspberry, and red currant inform an athletically lean, bright and penetratingly finishing Pinot that deserves some time before revisiting and will surely be worth following for at least a decade. (The west-facing slope as well as the plateau atop this same knoll - all once part of the Weber property - are now collectively known as Ana Vineyard, and from the less than three acre plateaued portion, planted in 1976 -with rows contracted to Patricia Green and Beaux Freres on either side - came in 2011 what will be the newest Arterberry Maresh vineyard-designate.) - David Schildknecht