Yowsa! 2001 Arcadian "Sleepy Hollow" PN

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2001 Arcadian “Sleepy Hollow” PN
Lipid light/medium red with definite onion skin tones.
Rich nose of spice, forest floor and root beer.
Firm, complex, refined spicy fruit featuring “Nibs Licorice”, morels and brown sugar with a long cherry pit finish.
Balanced in every way with good remaining acid.
Nice secondary development and another triumph for Joe!
A great food wine.
NOBODY does better with Sleepy than Arcadian! [worship.gif]
[95 pts]

TTT

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Thanks for the note. I love that Joe includes these wines with age in the club shipments. Sounds like it is in a really good place so I may have to open a bottle.

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I had the good fortune to have consumed the 01 Garys, 02 Pisoni and this wine over the past several months. Each of these wines are prime-time players at this point, with no end in sight.

I would rate them in the order listed, but you can’t go wrong with any of these.

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I discovered Arcadian with the 1999 Sleepy Hollow PN, and then joined the club and bought a bunch of the 2001. Drank my bottles from that purchase and kept adding through the years. It’s been fascinating to follow the evolution and I still have 1 bottle left.

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You are on an Arcadian roll lately, Paul. Nice to see your notes. I have one bottle of the 01 Gary’s left but nearly a case of the 01 Sleepy Hollow. I totally agree with your praises of Arcadian in general and this 01 Sleepy in particular. Just a phenomenal bottle. I’ll have to open a bottle or two of Arcadian this weekend.

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Nice. Wish more reviews used more relatable analogies like these.

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I, too, had this wine recently, and although very nice, I did not care for it as much as the 2001 Gary’s. Your descriptors are leaving me wondering if we had the same wine, but indeed we did. In general I don’t rate wines numerically, but your 95 points would be quite high for that wine in my mind.

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This is a great wine, thanks for the reminder Paul.
Haven’t had it in a couple of years, but my bottles were really special around age 10.
Coincidentally, one of my best ever restaurant wine lists finds was finding this at a now-defunct restaurant in Sandy Hook, CT for $65 a couple years ago.
Great wine. Now I’m thinking I need to track down more.

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I’ve had this a bunch of times and always had it in the “nice, has potential” category - it migrated into the “Yowsa!” category about a year or two ago. I am down to my last two and hope subsequent vintages turn out as good.

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You need track no further than the Arcadian* website.


*Disclosure: I have a commercial interest in Arcadian Winery.

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I have a bottle of this and the '99, both of which I’m looking forward to trying.

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Had a bottle of this wine back in December. I thought it showed more youthful than a bottle I had two years prior to that. Happy to have more laying down. :slight_smile:

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Done the same and rate them the same. The o1 Gary’s was a game changer for me. I was actually afraid to cAll up and buy more. Afraid if I started drinking that on a More regular basis, none of my other wines would compare any longer.

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Quite possibly my favorite Arcadian wine, ever. Perhaps not the best but just my favorite.

Jason

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Probably my favorite Arcadian ever, too.
Though, on any given day I could say the same thing about Joe’s '97 Pisoni [cheers.gif]

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I’ve had this over a dozen times and it just keeps getting better. Wonderful stuff and a true ager. Thanks for the note.

Cheers,
Doug