Lou Rad's
Tasted Friday, December 18, 2009 by Loren Sonkin with 677 views
Last night I went over to my friend and BBer, Lou Rads, for his annual 5 year retrospective on Oregon Pinot Noir. We each bring a bottle from our cellar that is from the vintage five years prior. This year was 2004. The wines were consumed blind over the course of 3 hours. Breads and cheeses were served.
The group was pretty unanimous in their top 2 wines. What I found interesting was every wine recieved a number 3 vote except one and that got 3 #4 votes. So while the top quality was unanimous, after that individual biases really played a part.
Lou went down to his cellar and opened a couple more bottles:
2005 Witness Tree Vineyard Chardonnay Vintage Select 78 Points
USA, Oregon, Willamette Valley
How do you guess at a bottle that only shows oak. Well, first you guess on them: Oregon. Then color: Pinot Gris or Chard. Then? It was so devoid of any fruit, flavor or anything that I thought Pinot Gris. But, it had so much oak, that I couldn't imagine anyone doing THAT to a Pinot Gris. Probably Chard. But, who really cared. This was like taking some water and adding oak chips and "mega-yellow" :-) for color. After a few hours, the oak was a bit mroe subdued, but there was nothing else. I can only assume this should have been drunk a few years ago.
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2004 Sineann Riesling Medici Vineyard 91 Points
USA, Oregon, Willamette Valley
Deep gold in color. The nose has some slight petrol and some lemon lime ntoes. On the palaate, there is decent acidity. Lemon-lime flavors. Long finish. This got better with air. This is holding up fine and a great example of an Oregon Pinot. More like a Kabinett style IMO.
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