A Pinot Miscellany

[Nevan]

Our tasting group, dubbed “The Purely Pinot Group” met last night for our periodic tasting of . . . purely pinot noir. Usually following a theme (vintage, region, producer, etc.) this set of seven wines was instead a short ramble through California, Oregon and Burgundy, with a concluding side trip to Canada.

We called this tasting “A Pinot Miscellany.” Summary notes follow in separate postings in order to facilitate later searches for individual wines.

All the wines were tasted blind. Though it is not at all our goal to rate or rank the wines (we are simply after broadening our tasting experience), inevitably the group tended to favor some wines over others. This is MY order of preference, and it generally reflects the group sentiment:

1997 Clos de la Roche Hubert Lignier

1996 Calera, Jensen Vineyard, Mt. Harlan

1998 St. Innocent, Seven Springs Vineyard

1999 Williams Selyem, Sonoma Coast

2000 Merry Edwards, Russian River Valley, Klopp Ranch

1998 Torii Mor, Quail Hill

We ended the tasting with a 2000 Ice Wine of Pinot noir produced by St. Hubertus Estate Winery, Okanagan Valley, British Columbia (VQA)—which we all found really interesting and intriguing.

Tasting notes follow in separate postings, spaced out for delivery ease (or perhaps, just spaced out tasting notes . . .).

[docsconz]

I want to hear about the pinot ice wine