I love Oregon wines…and Oregon in general actually. Beautiful, green and lots of open spaces. Plus they make a KILLER pinot noir. Its been a few years since I’ve been back there but given my most recent experience with their produce, I desperately need to make it back.
I went to visit Scott Paul’s tasting room (literally just a room (albeit a pretty one) with very little on the walls and just wine – no cheesy trinkets) around 2006. They are a small boutique winery in Oregon’s Williamette Valley and are located in a little town which, when I visited, had very little going on except for 5 – 6 tasting rooms. I tasted a few of his Pinots (which was all he had on offer) and was impressed. The wines were quite expensive so I was a bit tentative to buy anything. While I was pondering they pulled a bottle from the back that was their top of the line. They had just 1 bottle left and it was only a few dollars more. I think wineries do this on purpose – its a marketing trick – and it always works. I bought the bottle, feeling like I’d won a prize, and happily sauntered on to my next tasting. Fast forward 5 years and I realise that I really did win a prize – this was an incredibly good bottle of wine. I opened the bottle over Christmas with my soon-to-be-mother-in-law. Yumm-O. Smooth, rich and deep. Everything a lightly aged high end Pinot Noir should be. I just wish now that I had been able to buy more of it…
Scott Paul 2005 Pinot Noir, Dundee Hills, Oregon
“Audrey”
A few notes from their website: Inspired by the cinematic icon of classic beauty and elegance, Audrey is a barrel selection of the finest, most elegant, silkiest wine of the vintage in our cellars. The 2005 bottling is sourced from our blocks of the Maresh Vineyard in Dundee Hills, originally planted in 1970.
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