Dinner at Crow

Seattle, WA
Tasted Saturday, June 4, 2005 by Eric with 491 views

Introduction

Tonight my wife and I met up with some old friends who we haven't dined with in a number of years. The dinner was at Crow, a somewhat hip place we had never visited which, to our great surprise, was less than 5 minutes from our house. Apart from an overly loud ambience, I was impressed with the food, reasonable and plentiful glassware and very fair $15 corkage.

Dinner for me was a salad of watercress, smoked trout, avocado and grapefruit. Nice contrast on this! Then dinner was a fantastically crsipy pan-roasted chicken wrapped in pancetta. The plate included some green beans that were a bit overcooked. Still, the chicken was a perfect match with a troika of Pinots that we brought. The 1998 Beaux Frères Pinot Noir Beaux Frères Vineyard easily blew the other pair of wines off the table in my opinion.

Flight 1 (3 Notes)

  • 1997 Elkhorn Peak Pinot Noir Fagan Creek 87 Points

    USA, California, Napa Valley

    The nose is spicy and shows some cedar, a clear oak influence yet well resolved with age. The palate is very round and ripe with a hint of caramel; clean flavors on the whole, lightly sweet. The acid is light but present. Nice wine, mature. Drink up.

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  • 1998 Beaux Frères Pinot Noir Beaux Frères Vineyard 93 Points

    USA, Oregon, Yamhill County

    Here we go! This wine was unreal. Aromatics were always pleasing and very intriguing with mineral, floral notes, sour cherry and pine. The palate is dark, broad shouldered, tannic and long. I don't have a lot of words here, but this was a deeply impressive and admirable young wine; muscular, powerful, drinking very young yet beautifully. Well done!

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  • 1999 Domaine Drouhin Oregon Pinot Noir Laurène 83 Points

    USA, Oregon, Willamette Valley, Dundee Hills

    Perhaps I am being overly harsh since I brought this wine to dinner. The nose opens with obvious notes of vanilla and cherry, but this quickly moves to show a very green and vegetal note of asparagus. The nose does integrate with time with the green receding more to spicy and leafy aromatics. With more air this moves to green tobacco with nice notes of graphite and a hint of char. Excellent improvement. However, this was still very green and stemmy on the palate throughout the three hour dinner. The fruit is mostly cherry, a bit simple, candied, vanilla, very green. I am not happy with this wine, as it should be a LOT better.

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