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• Willamette Valley Vineyards, Elton Vineyard, Pinot Noir 2007
  If you like French Burgundy, you'll love this bottle of wine. This is another bottle from Willamette Valley Vineyards, that ironically, has a style more akin to France than Oregon. Oregon is typically known for "bigger" Pinots: full, dark ...
• Beaux Freres, Willamette Valley, Pinot Noir, 2006
  Apparently 2009 was difficult for just about everybody if you read all those end-of-year editorials and remembrances. 2009 was especially hard on our family. So what did we drink New Years Eve? We decided on carpe diem, and broke open one of our Beaux ...
• Willamette Valley Vineyard, Pinot Gris, 2008
  Here's another wine we got from Willamette Valley Vineyards. And while we review a lot of Pinot Noir, we also like the Gris and Blanc cousins. This one smells like pear, and lime ... and peach! This was a well balanced and tasty Pinot Gris and was not ...
• Willamette Valley Vineyards, 'Whole Cluster Fermented', Pinot Noir, 2008
  Lots of people love Pinot Noir because of the thrill in the inability to really know what you're going to find inside the bottle. Pinots, more so than other varietals, can be hit and miss. Usually these people (myself included) love the highs so much ...

• Re: How to open a bottle of wine with out an opener!
  Ha, ha… love it! Talk about Bottle Shock!
• Re: Silvan Ridge, Reserve, Pinot Noir, 2006
  Don Fassett from Silvan Ridge/Hinman Vineyards let me know via email that this wine retails for about $27.99, and was the Gold Medal Winner at the 2008 Taster’s Guild International Wine Judging. He also include the following data: Appellation: ...
• Re: Domaine de la Guicharde, Cotes du Rhone, 2005
  Fantastic to hear! I only discovered this wine with the 2005 vintage. I found some 2006 not so long ago and bought some of that too; though I haven't tried that vintage yet. Cheers!

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