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Marcassin

Helen Turley and her husband John Wetlaufer are one of Napa Valley’s most famous couples. Both are winemakers and entrepreneurs who between them have consulted or worked for a significant number of the valley’s most prestigious wineries. They founded their own winery, Marcassin, in 1990 in the Russian River Valley where they cultivate fewer than 20 acres planted to Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. Marcassin Chardonnays are consistently among the finest produced in California – or anywhere in the world, according to Robert M. Parker J. – and the couple is also now producing highly-rated Pinot Noir. Parker has written that Turley and Wetlaufer “continue to rank at the top of the short list of producers making the world’s most prodigious, complex wines.” The total annual production at Marcassin is fewer than 2,000 cases and the wines are distributed only through the winery’s mailing list.

1997 Marcassin Vineyard Pinot Noir

Light capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; signs of past seepage; light label condition issue

RP  95   
ST  95   
WS  91   

2001 Marcassin Vineyard Pinot Noir

WS  97   
ST  94+    
RP  90   
3 available
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2001 Marcassin Vineyard Pinot Noir

Light signs of past seepage

WS  97   
ST  94+    
RP  90   

2013 Marcassin Vineyard Pinot Noir

Light label condition issue

RP  94+    
JD  94   

2006 Marcassin Blue Slide Ridge Vineyard Pinot Noir

Light capsule condition issue; signs of past seepage; light label condition issue

WS  96   
RP  95   

2010 Marcassin Vineyard Pinot Noir

Light label condition issue

RP  95   
CT  95.1   
WS  94   
VN  91   
2 available
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2008 Marcassin Three Sisters Vineyard Chardonnay

RP  97   
WS  93   
2 available
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1998 Marcassin Blue Slide Ridge Vineyard Pinot Noir

Lightly depressed cork

RP  98   
WS  93   
ST  91   

1996 Marcassin Vineyard Pinot Noir

Lightly depressed cork

RP  97   
WS  96   
ST  94+    

2012 Marcassin Vineyard Pinot Noir

RP  97   
3 available
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2012 Marcassin Vineyard Pinot Noir

Light label condition issue

RP  97   
2 available
Bid *

2012 Marcassin Vineyard Pinot Noir

Lightly depressed cork; light label condition issue

RP  97   

2012 Marcassin Vineyard Pinot Noir

Lightly depressed cork

RP  97   

2003 Marcassin Vineyard Pinot Noir

RP  99   
ST  97   
WS  95   

2009 Marcassin Vineyard Pinot Noir

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  97+    
WS  97   
WS  #36 of 2014   

2009 Marcassin Vineyard Pinot Noir

RP  97+    
WS  97   
WS  #36 of 2014   

2000 Marcassin Vineyard Pinot Noir

Light capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; light signs of past seepage

RP  99   
WS  95   
ST  95   
2 available
Bid *

2004 Marcassin Vineyard Pinot Noir

Light label condition issue

RP  100   
ST  95+    
WS  93   

2004 Marcassin Vineyard Pinot Noir

Signs of past seepage

RP  100   
ST  95+    
WS  93   

2004 Marcassin Vineyard Pinot Noir

RP  100   
ST  95+    
WS  93   

2005 Marcassin Vineyard Chardonnay

Light label condition issue

RP  98   
WS  91   
2 available
Bid *

2005 Marcassin Vineyard Chardonnay

Lightly depressed cork; light label condition issue

RP  98   
WS  91   

2000 Marcassin Vineyard Chardonnay

Lightly depressed cork; signs of past seepage

RP  96   
WS  94   

2004 Marcassin Vineyard Chardonnay

Light label condition issue

ST  97   
RP  94   
WS  94   
2 available
Bid *

2004 Marcassin Vineyard Chardonnay

Signs of past seepage; label condition issue

ST  97   
RP  94   
WS  94