Wildaire, Reserve, Pinot Noir, 2006
With all the old world wines we've been drinking lately, it's really a treat to return to home, as it were. Here's my old favorite: Oregon Pinot Noir. We started with a really dirty Cotes du Rhone (that I really liked), and then a Medoc (slightly thin). So what on earth was a thinking pulling out an Oregon Pinot after all that French? Well, we had this great chocolate dish. And Pinot -- especially Oregon Pinot -- and chocolate pair perfectly, imho.
It was a tad cold when we started, so it was espeically hard to discern the aromas and flavors. The nose was vanilla (of course), violet, rose, and something creamy. Pepper and dust. Denise described the "dusty" smell as: "grandmas old fabulous dress from the 50s". The taste was raspberry, strawberry, carmel and honey suckle. The finish was raspberry and floral (rose). Caleb found strawberry and fig too. Later on, it had a nectarine finish, which I usually do not like. But in this case I don't mean it was sour. Instead, it was like the over-ripe flesh of the nectarine -- not that skin taste at all (not sour).
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8.5