2001 MERRY EDWARDS OLIVET LANE PINOT NOIR

95 points
One of the top 12 Pinot Noirs of 2003
-The 2004 Pinot Passion Awards, PinotReport Special Awards Issue

95 points
"WOW! Merry Edwards' Olivet Lane bottling is Russian River Valley through and through. Take the great character from a 30-year old vineyard and add Merry's touch and you've got a world-class wine."
-Greg Walter, publisher, PinotReport, October 2003

( 93 points)
“ Here is a deep, round and mouthfilling wine whose pulpy cherry nose and flavors comes (sic) seasoned by notes of cocoa and sweet wood smoke.”
-Connoisseurs’ Guide to California Wine, February 2004

90 points
“Sweet, juicy flavors of plum, vanillin oak, smoke, tea and clove.”
-The Wine News, February/March 2004

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“Fleshy and richly flavored; a well balanced, complex Pinot Noir, with a very long finish. It tastes of strawberry, black cherry, tobacco, toast, and new oak.”
-Ronn Wiegand, Master of Wine, Master Sommelier, in a featured SPOTLIGHT of three 2001 Merry Edwards wines in Restaurant Wine, Issue #97

Wine of the Week
(out of four)
“Extraordinary”
-Chris Knap, Wine Columnist, The Orange County Register October 23, 2003

“Medium deep red color - elegant aroma of ripe but firm cherries with the distinct background aromas of Pinot Noir. Lovely elegance on the palate with enough tannin to form a firm backbone - A few years of age would pay handsome.”
-Narsai David praising Merry Edwards Pinot Noir on the Bay Area’s KCBS Radio 81 AM on October 1, 2003.