QPR Pinot Noir

[dananne]

A few more to update this thread. First of all, we've had bad luck with Chilean PN in the past. However, the '06 Morande is very tasty and varietally-correct, and at around $10 is an absolute steal. Anne mistakenly thought she had cracked a nicer PN, and was startled to find that it was so inexpensive. We'll be buying more of it this summer.

Watching "Sense and Sensibility" on DVD, I popped Dashwood (Get it? Dashwood? Am I the only Jane Austen geek around here?) 2006 PN from Marlborough (NZ) which was on closeout at $18. Grapey, strawberry aromas and flavors, with a bit of barnyard-y funkiness thrown in. Not too bad.

Better from NZ was Spy Valley's '05 PN, also a closeout wine, but at closer to $20. Very dark garnet in color, and both creamy and acidic in the mouth, with plumb and berries, a bit of cola, and minerality. Nice, long finish. It got a WE88 and a WS87, for those that care about that sort of thing.