APPELLATION: Oregon
VARIETAL: Pinot Noir
WINERY: Erath
ALCOHOL: 13%
ALCOHOL: 13%
WEBSITE: https://www.erath.com/
NOTES:
Oak | Bing cherry | Vanilla cream
A robustly juicy aroma & body. Driven by an earthiness in a savory lush vegetal manner. Somewhat fungal; a lot of woodsiness. Fruits, loud reds. Let's pretend I haven't begun drinking the stuff yet & am just gazing into it lovingly. Looks moderately thick with goldenrod >>> bronze rim. Nice clear depths. Moving from sniff to sip...
...those big out-ahead fruit notes are bing cherry & a bracing that closely cranberry. The vegetation is a pile of leaves, dry atop & composting underneath. Twigs. Oak twigs... why not? Oak everywhere, really. Lively-so. Excellent structuring to taste. As to body, a good bit lacking in tannins. A table wine to pair well w/ the fat boy salad choices (Cobb, Chef). Nice alcohol warmth in the chest, comfortably.
Blue-collar elegant night out comes to mind. 6pm at a Midwest Olive Garden. Undertones are a neat-O vanilla cream soda, some baking spices, cacao bean. More oak. I did say "Oak," yes? Yes. Warm & attainable with moderate complexities and soft nuances. Calmly reassuring even where its most vibrant (oak). Even where it's silly (vanilla cream soda). Does its screw cap roots proud. I miss Bob Eucker. Wait, he's STILL alive???
FINAL GRADE: B
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79 D 60-69 F 0-59
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