Tasting - Rainstorm Pinot Noir

Name: Rainstorm Pinot Noir 

Variety: Pinot Noir 

Region: Oregon 

Country: Mmmmurica 

Year: 2009

Price: $17.95

Website review: To craft our wonderfully balanced Rainstorm Pinot Noir, we take advantage of our diverse landscape by selecting grapes from our vineyards in the Willamette and Umpqua Valleys. With its cool, mild climate, the Willamette Valley of northern Oregon produces Pinot Noirs with an earthy, elegant style and complex flavors and subtlety. The hotter and drier climate in the southern Oregon’s Umpqua Valley region produces Pinot Noirs bursting with brilliant, ripe, rich fruit flavors. By creating a 50/50 blend of these two wine regions, we’ve crafted an Oregon Pinot Noir that reflects the dynamic diversity of our very green (and sometimes very wet) state. The result: Rainstorm Pinot Noir is a perfect harmony.

My review: HECK YAH! THIS STUFF WAS AWESOME! HOLY KROGER 90 UNDER 20 SECTION! This wine was so great.  I'm 100% buying it again.  It was one of the most perfect Pinot Noirs I've ever drank (dranken? dranked?).  It smelled very earthy, nothing floral or fruity on the bouquet.  It tasted very earthy too but had some fruitiness, maybe cherry, to it.  I felt like it was more complex in that way.  I could also pick up some of the oak.  I felt like the spicy finish at the end was great too because it really rounded out the flavor complexity.       

Food: no food 

XOXOVINO, 

LJ