1999 Daniel Gehrs Pinot Noir

[dananne]

Anne and I popped the last of the '99s of this one over the weekend to celebrate our 9th wedding anniversary. Perhaps our expectations were too big based upon the bottle we had in Jan., but this one was a bit of a letdown. The bacon fat element, which had been in the background and lent complexity in the other bottle, seemed to be too pronounced this time, to the point where it tasted a bit out-of-whack. Maybe bottle variation, maybe the extra 6 months age, maybe because the bottle was the last of the lot in the wine shop where I picked it up in the odds-and-ends bin. Oh, well. The earlier 99 was fantastic, the '98 was stellar, and I've got a '00 in the cellar to pop soon.