Community Tasting Note

KeithAkers wrote:

Saturday, July 30, 2011 - Older Oregon Pinots (Wildwood, Portland OR): nose: hard to truly put into words how this nose operated and changed. While it fell apart after a while, it was clearly alive from the get go and yielded tender tones of red fruits, autumn leaves, roses, red currants, and bits of peppery tones. this was a moving target on the nose but lovely across in every single change that it had. While other 20+ year old OR pinots have fallen apart after 30-45 minutes, this held strong on the nose for about 90 minutes

taste: fully resolved on tannins along with medium acidity with a very pretty medium feel and silky tones of red fruits, dried berries, roses, and pepper tones all meld well together. This wasn't just alive on the palate either as there was some very good layering as well. The palate was quite alive and showing all it had

overall: The color on this was shocking as well. Normally I would expect a bricked through wine, but if one was just looking at the color, they would assume this to be a much younger wine. Gorgeous at every stage until it finally started to downslide, this was special to drink just on it's own. But, it was still a wine of note and one that was enjoyed for its beauty as well as its age

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