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• jjjordan Likes this wine:

  October 9, 2016 - Was prepared to decant this a bit but felt it was ready straight away and we let it open over the course of the evening. Medium color for a Pinot. Red fruit, mushrooms, and cocoa on the nose and full, bright red fruit on the palate. Drinking very well right now and we enjoyed it. Starting to get the feeling that while '07 clearly isn't as good as '08, it's not nearly as bad as everyone initially made it out to be.

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• oldgrowth45 commented:

  10/9/16, 12:35 PM - I fully agree with your 2007 Oregon Pinot assesment. I've been a huge fan of '07 since they came out. Weather-wise 2007 was tough (lots of rain at the wrong time), however I think one of the main reasons the vintage was panned so hard was because it was sandwiched between 2006 - which was a very warm vintage that produced very big, voloptuous wines that showed nice early (although now most of them are shot), and 2008 which is hands down one of the best recent vintages in the valley; another problem was that '07's really didn't show well at all early. However, now they are really starting to shine.
  Coincidentally, I drank an '07 Beaux Freres Willamette Valley on Friday and it was in a real nice place.

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