2000 RUSSIAN RIVER VALLEY

93 points
One of the “Top 100 Wines of 2003”
“Big Pinot, opening with a blast of black cherries, truffle, smoke, new kid leather and a thousand other scents. Rich, dense and fruity—a delight packed with pure cherry flavors. Yet it feels light as a feather, soft as silk.”
-Wine Enthusiast “Best of Year” Issue

93 points, Editors’ Choice
“Rich, dense and fruity—a delight packed with pure cherry flavors. Yet it feels light as a feather, soft as silk.”
-Steve Heimoff, The Wine Enthusiast, February 2003

  92
“This impressively filled offering is simply loaded with well- extracted fruit and is fit with just the right measure of lightly toasty oak. Big in body and wonderfully supple with an altogether classic velvety feel, it is ripe and rich without becoming hot or heavy and it carries into a lengthy, ripe-cherry finish.”
-Connoisseurs Guide to California Wine, November 2002

90 points
“Very nice tart berry/cherry style with enough stuffing to keep up with most food.”
-PinotReport, August 2002

“The RRV is extremely well balanced, supple and full bodied, with medium intensity and a lightly tannic finish. Tastes of raspberry, toast, nutmeg, baked cherry, and new oak.”
-Ronn Wiegand, Restaurant Wine, Issue #91

The San Francisco Chronicle wine tasting panel rated Merry Edwards 2000 Russian River Valley Pinot Noir among their “Favorite Russian River Valley Pinot Noirs”
-November 28, 2002

“Shows distinctive varietal character and should continue to develop with several more years of bottle aging. Highly Recommended.”
-California Grapevine, October-November 2002