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It has been a while since I tried a Pinot noir from Gary Farrell’s fabulous line-up of super high quality wines. What was I thinking I need to make it a point to taste every vintage from this winery. Yes, believe the hype. These guys have earned all of their accolades by producing terroir driven, [...]

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This is some stylish Pinot noir and rightly so coming from the winemaker Tony Rynders who has made wine here in America at a few wineries who represent the pinnacle of quality for more than twenty years prior to making his own label. He certainly knew what he was doing when he made this fine [...]

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When we received this sample I was intrigued, having once lived near the area where these grapes were grown. The reason I was intrigued was that although this was fourteen years ago, no one was growing Pinot noir on that side of Hwy 101 to my recollection because it is too hot. In the wake [...]

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Hahn winery has been producing wine for decades in California’s central coast. In German, “Hahn” means “Rooster” and for this reason a rooster embellishes the Hahn Winery label, honoring the Hahn family’s European heritage. Here are a few value wines I recently tasted which are worth finding at your local store: 2010 Hahn Monterey Pinot [...]

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This is another unique Willamette Valley Pinot noir from a producer who just keeps getting better. Winemaker Jim Seufert seems to have no ceiling to the amount of passion and flavor he can coax out of the berries and into a bottle. This 2009 from the Zenith vineyard a large and diverse location that supplies [...]

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A Sonoma Coast AVA Pinot noir produced by a winery from Lompoc that starts out a little burly for a Pinot noir. Not quite to the point of being hurly burly which is a good thing and being burly is not necessarily a bad thing in a red wine, it’s just not a style you [...]

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