*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from the winery.
Harkening back to our trip to Oregon this summer, Mr. Wannabe Wino and I popped the cork on the 2010 Cornerstone Oregon Willamette Valley Pinot Noir. If you haven’t yet had a chance to get to Cornerstone and connect with Craig Camp you are totally missing out. Especially if you haven’t stopped by their tasting room to do a tasting paired with local cheeses. The 2010 Pinot Noir has a real cork closure, clocks in at 13.5% alcohol by volume, and retails for $50 a bottle.
Four takeaways from this wine:
1.) I would pay $50 for this wine, no questions asked.
2.) Expanding their OR offerings would make me love Cornerstone even more.
3.) My notes for this wine say “Excellent.” I couldn’t describe it better.
4.) If you like dusty earth, dried violets and cherries, and baking cocoa in your Pinot, this one is for you.
On the nose I got spice, pepper, herbs, cedar, smoke, berries, dried cherries, dried violets, dusty earth, and dried raspberries on the nose. As the wine opened in my glass I kept diving back in and finding more good things to smell. The palate echoed the nose with cocoa notes, raspberries, cherries, strawberries, and herbs. All the fruits tasted a bit dried to me and very concentrated. Overall the wine had excellent acidity and long finish. A very complex and well done wine for the price point, that over-delivered.
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