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[Beyond the Bottle] Beyond the Bottle : Matello 2008 Pinot Noir Willamette Valley: In the glass, the Matello 2008 Pinot Noir Willamette Valley (13.9%) was a clear, garnet red, delivering aromas of dusty cherry fruit and pie crust to the nose. On the palate, this Oregon pinot offered a nice mouthfeel, with generous cherry fruit, good acidity and a decent finish.

[Mary to Many] Mary to Many - One to remember - Regale Pinot Noir Oneel 08: The 07 Oneel from Regale is a very drinkable pinot but having just tasted the 08 which will be out maybe august this year and will be bigger, fruitier and just a bit more... I want to remember to go back and buy it in the fall!

[The Wine Economist] Oregon Pinot Noir: Peaks & Valleys « The Wine Economist: Even higher than  Burgundy, I think, because many of the vineyards there  have been in family hands for years and land costs are often not explicitly considered in calculating cost (an economic mistake, of course, as any Econ 101 student will tell you). That’s not the case is Oregon, where it is hard to ignore the cost of capital.

[Wines rated within set price ranges. BrainWines.com] Wines rated within set price ranges. BrainWines.com: Pinot Noir ...: in Neuropharmacology - where I studied how biochemical cascades within the brain lead to long-lasting changes, including our memories. Therefore, when my brain tells me that whatever stuff I just jammed in my piehole is yummy, my interest usually relates to the cerebral hows and whys of my responses.

[The Wine Front] Mac Forbes Yarra Glen Pinot Noir 2008 : The Wine Front: Here’s the winemaking notes for this Yarra Glen Pinot Noir - direct from the Mac Forbes website.

[Slashfood] Pinot Noir - Wine of the Week - Slashfood: Planted not just in California -- and in more regions than the Central Coast -- the grapes also do well in New York, Washington, Oregon, New Zealand, Italy and France. Considered a finicky grape to grow, winemakers consider Pinot Noir their pride and joy and spend a lot of time perfecting their craft as it relates to this particular grape.

[Snooth.com - Articles] Snooth | New Zealand Pinot Noir: Pinot noir is definitely a variety on the rise in new Zealand, with plantings nationwide soaring to over 4000 hectares from barely 500 in 1996. Still, this represents just 11% of New Zealand’s total annual production, having passed Bordeaux varieties and blends (8%) but still well behind Chardonnay, with 20%, and Sauvignon Blanc with a whopping 52% of the country's production.

[Woot Wine! - One Week, One Wine] Wine.Woot : Riverbench Winery Estate Pinot Noir - Four Pack: 2007 Riverbench Estate Pinot Noir The vivid burgundy color is slightly darker than 2006, thanks to an almost textbook perfect harvest in 2007. The wine is commanding and ripe but not over extracted.

[Wine Peeps] Oregon's Willamette Valley Wineries: On the Road to Seattle: While wine grapes have been grown in Oregon since the mid-1800’s, it was not until 1966 when David Lett and his wife Diana planted 3,000 Pinot Noir vines in the Dundee Hills that the Willamette Valley really came into being. David, who passed away in 2008, is affectionately known in Oregon as Papa Pinot.

[MAD KANE'S HUMOR BLOG] South African Pinot's Too Pricey? Blame The Baboons. « MAD KANE'S ...: Largely undeterred by electric fences, hundreds of wild baboons in South Africa’s prized wine country are finding the vineyards of ripe, succulent grapes to be an “absolute bonanza,” said Justin O’Riain of the University of Cape Town.

[The purely domestic wine blog] Patz & Hall - Excellent Pinot Noir and a superb ten year old ...: As a native of Northern California who regularly took trips to the vineyards of Napa and Sonoma during the 1960’s with my parents for Sunday drives, visiting the wineries introduced me to the sights and smells that helped fuel my passion for wines to this day. I always had an inquisitive nose for aromas and many years later realized that all of the training I had subjected it to prepared me pretty well for a career in wine.

[The Blog Wine Cellar] 2006 Antica Terra Pinot Noir: over the last few years, I'm confident in expressing that this wine is somewhat atypical of the regions natural intonation. Whereas most Oregon

[Wine Industry Insight] Gallo's Red Bicyclette “Pinot Noir” Still On Store Shelves - Legal ...: on the other hand, it sure doesn’t look, smell, or taste like any Pinot I’ve ever drunk, either….On the tongue, again this isn’t offensive for a wine in this price range: The acid isn’t overdone, there’s some tannin-body without going overboard, and there’s some flavor, too; it’s not thin, insipid, and sharp-elbowed, as is so often the case with $6 wines.”

[The Awl] Baboons Like Pinot Noir, I Like Baboons - The Awl: and immediately find the video above, which doesn't really show drunk baboons but is instead a montage of pictures of baboons at South African wineries apparently produced, sort of as a commercial, by the Nederberg winery? It was put up just yesterday by someone called GoldensGirl1, includes the photo that runs with the Discovery story, and loosely paraphrases that story in its accompanying informational text.

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