Willamette Valley Vineyards Winery
Tasted Sunday, November 16, 2008 by RPerro with 642 views
A special Oregon Wine Guild (the WVV wine club) event, offering magnum-sized bottles from the library for special prices. Over 130 magnums of various wines were available for sale, from vintages back into the late 1990's through 2005. Willamette Valley Vineyards also owns Tualatin Estate Vineyards an Griffin Creek in Southern Oregon, and they were represented here as well.
I missed out on the 750ml WVV regular riesling, and magnums of TEV chardonnay and GC viognier.
A variety of 750ml clonal pinots from the estate vineyards.
Magnums! Wish there had been more to taste...
The event was a touch underwhelming. We expected more tastings of the vintage wine (I'm not buying a magnum of a library wine unless I've tasted it first), and more/better food. As it was, the cheese & cracker trays were okay, but we all left there wanting lunch. I guess for $10, what do you expect?
2007 Willamette Valley Vineyards Dry Riesling 84 Points
USA, Oregon, Willamette Valley
Quite a bit drier than the regular bottling, this had just a touch of sweetness, reminding me more of a Viognier than a Riesling. It was good, but I prefer just a touch more sweetness. Floral, with pineapple and honeydew melon flavors, but they seemed muted somehow, without the sweetness to accompany them.
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