Dundee Hills Pinot Noir

[crushday]

Here's some finished bottles of the Pinot Noir I bottled yesterday. The wine, made from grapes grown in the Willamette Valley (Dundee Hills, AVA) is lighter than my preference. The flavor is great but the color sits between a Rose' and my impressions of a Central Coast Pinot Noir. I went back in forth in my struggle for a fuller Pinot and considered many times fortifying the wine with Syrah. In the end I bottled it without that addition. Dundee Hills is colder than Central Coast (CA) and will produce a lighter Pinot.

I bottled 125 bottles from last years harvest.

*color of pic is TERRIBLE... Caps are white and label is light purple.

 

[Kraffty]

Looks infrared imaged and makes the bottles seem chrome. Classic looking label.

 

[ibglowin]

You bottled a Pinot in Bordeaux bottles!
Looks nice!

 

[crushday]

You bottled a Pinot in Bordeaux bottles!
Looks nice!

I did…. A couple reasons: 1) I don’t like how burgundy bottles “store” in my cellar. They are a pain to get in and out of my racks. And, 2) I couldn’t find any locally without needing to buy a pallet (132 cases) and buying what I needed online with the shipping costs made the bottles cost too much.

Don’t turn me in to the French AOC, please….

 

[ibglowin]

Worse the Portlandia AOC!

Don’t turn me in to the French AOC, please….