TN: Whose nose knows Pinots?

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Forgot to mention: The NZ Pinot (Akarua) had a screw top (requiring therefore decanting into another bottle to preserve the blindness of the tasting, because none of the others use this closure, yet).

-- Max

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Max Hauser

Thanks for the interesting notes, Max. FWIW, I've been generally quite disappointed with the Oregon Pinots I've had. I've heard lots of good things about Dom Serene, so your notes are both encouraging and distressing given their first-and-last place finish (different years could account for some of this difference, I suspect). I had the Ponzi '01 Reserve at their wine bar last Xmas and (as usual with them) was underwhelmed by it. However, I should add that on that same trip we had some very fine PNs from Torii Mor.

Mark Lipton

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Mark Lipton

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The tasting group that did this is organized around Burgundies and has Burgundian tastes. (One or two regulars are commercial Burgundy buyers whose US shops some of you here have cited enthusiastically on other occasions). Despite uneven results from Oregon in general that I also have experienced, well-chosen Oregon wines show well at tastings of this group, usually organized by the same host I cited. (First Oregon vintage I encountered there was the 1994. Various winemakers including the Ponzis have joined these tastings as guests.) Sometimes Tom E. even works an Oregon ringer secretly into a Burgundy tasting and it does well.

Bottle variation could be a factor in the low-preference Domain Serene wine. I saw a comment on a private food Web site, where I posted the same TN, from a person who just tasted the same wine and found none of the negatives I did. (Or perhaps it was that we tasted it blind alongside some very good competition.)

I have a couple of past years of Torii Mor in storage. A reader of WCWN reported not long ago that (properly stored) they are tending to age fast and pass their prime. Just a data point, I have not opened any myself.

-- Max

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Max Hauser

Yeah, me too for the most part - but the 1998 Broadley showed me that Oregon has promise. I've had one or two since that were pretty good too.

Tom S

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Tom S

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