Adelsheim, Willamette Valley, Pinot Noir, 2006
I think when you drink wine regularly, you sort of get into various ruts. Currently, we've been drinking a lot of Rhone wines for example. A long time back-- like ten years ago or so -- Denise and I were in an Oregon Pinot rut -- this was before the recent astronomical prices of such stuff. And back then, we drank a lot of Adelsheim (amongst a handful of other usual suspects). We loved the stuff, and it's inexplicable to me why we haven't had more of this between then and now.
The nose was vanilla, which a lot of the time can be sort of pedestrian -- but not in this case. It was done just right to my tastes. There was also dust, cinnamon, nutmeg, and -- seriously -- it smelled like cherry pixie sticks (the candy). Though, I have to emphasize that the candy smell was not in a bad way (if you can imagine that).
The taste started out with dark fruits: prune and black cherry. But later as the wine opened, those dark fruits gave way to more like raspberry. There was that bark taste in there too (sort of bitter, but not overly so). The vanilla was also in the taste. The finish was strawberry and raspberry (so much for dark fruit at this point). This wine was really rich, and the body was medium (a bit more body than the average Pinot). And it was very smooth.
We really liked this wine. Yummy.
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8.0