2013 Joseph Swan Pinot Noir Trenton Estate Vineyard
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The 2013 Pinot Noir Trenton Estate Vineyard is beautiful on all accounts. Sporting a slightly evolved yet still healthy ruby color, it gives up a smorgasbord of sassafras, mint, bay leaf, forest floor, and chocolate that gains depth and richness with time in the glass. Beautifully textured, medium to full-bodied, with a seamless, elegant style that's a joy to drink, it will probably continue evolving gracefully for another decade, yet it's showing incredibly well today. Readers looking for a complex, nuanced Pinot Noir will love this. All these new releases from Joseph Swan show the more evolved, complex, lightly colored style favored by the estate. The wines seem ten years older than they are, but they have terrific complexity and elegant, silky profiles. They’re certainly singular.
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Jeb Dunnuck
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW, Wine Advocate
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The 2013 Pinot Noir Trenton Estate Vineyard presents a pale to medium ruby color and tar and asphalt-led nose, opening out to a core of raspberry preserves, red currant jelly and licorice, plus a waft of underbrush. Full-bodied, rich and powerful in the mouth, it gives mouth-filling berry preserves and anise flavors with a chewy backbone and a long, fruity finish.