Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Opposite week continued: California Pinot edition!
I actually had this a couple of days after the Kistler, but haven't posted on it.
At my roommate's recommendation, we picked up a bottle of W.H. Smith Maritime Pinot Noir 2006. I haven't been too high on New World pinot, since I am generally averse to the structure--there are plenty of wines where I can tolerate extraction, but low acidity is a fatal flaw for me--but this was good. I didn't try it when it was opened, but I was informed that it was showing a ton of extraction. It settled down half an hour or so later, and we thought that if you served it to people blind and just let them smell it, but not taste it, that they could easily mistake it for Burgundy. Which doesn't sound crazy. He had La Tache '93 recently, and after introducing the comment with, "You're going to laugh," said that it was very similar to that nose (red fruits, some savory spices). Anyone wanting to educate me on the subject is welcome to!
The palate was good, pretty complex, lots of red fruits and some earthiness. It even had nice structure, at least for the half an hour it was at peak. Still, that's quite a comment on the wine, that's a 2006 that really only had about half an hour where it was impressive.
At my roommate's recommendation, we picked up a bottle of W.H. Smith Maritime Pinot Noir 2006. I haven't been too high on New World pinot, since I am generally averse to the structure--there are plenty of wines where I can tolerate extraction, but low acidity is a fatal flaw for me--but this was good. I didn't try it when it was opened, but I was informed that it was showing a ton of extraction. It settled down half an hour or so later, and we thought that if you served it to people blind and just let them smell it, but not taste it, that they could easily mistake it for Burgundy. Which doesn't sound crazy. He had La Tache '93 recently, and after introducing the comment with, "You're going to laugh," said that it was very similar to that nose (red fruits, some savory spices). Anyone wanting to educate me on the subject is welcome to!
The palate was good, pretty complex, lots of red fruits and some earthiness. It even had nice structure, at least for the half an hour it was at peak. Still, that's quite a comment on the wine, that's a 2006 that really only had about half an hour where it was impressive.
