Salmon Run Pinot Noir

[Innkeeper]

NV Salmon Run, Pinot Noir, New York ($13.95). This is the same wine as the bottling of Dr Konstantin Frank’s Fleur de Pinot Noir that was given very high marks for being beneficial for the heart by two independent testing agencies. It is made we’ve been told primarily from young estate grapes, but because of the New York appellation there are other grapes from outside the Finger Lakes, probably from Long Island or the Hudson Valley. The “test glass” showed a typical Pinot color, almost identical with Illuminati Cerasuolo (a Rosato). It weighs in at as medium bodied wine at 12% alcohol. It gave a nice burst of red cherries on the nose and upfront. This was followed by fresh complexity and strong acidity across the palate. The finish lingered just fine.

Matched it with grillpanned smoked pork chops and salad with blue cheese dressing. Not a good match for the acid in the wine. Next time will try it with smoked baby back ribs in Carolina Red Sauce and salad with vinaigrette dressing. Will report back then.

[Thomas]

Nah, IK. Try it with smoked salmon or even smoked cornish hens.

[chittychattykathy]

Okay, here's the deal...
After the summer heat, one of you kind "Easterners" will be *required (*please, please) to start a little trade program with moi.
A little I send you mine, you send me yours???
Anyone?
I can't take all these posts, I need your wines!
CCK

[glenora]

CCK

E-mail me your address and I will start the flow!

Gene
gene@glenora.com

[winoweenie]

Kat, besides some exemplory whites and bubblies they make some really nice BLUSH wines too.(hehe)WW [img]http://wines.com/ubb2/wink.gif[/img]

[Drew]

Am I and Eastener? I'll send you my wife if you'll send wine. (Good stuff that is...)

Drew

[dananne]

Yeah, does this apply to the Southeast, too??? I know it's my 9th anniversary tomorrow, but I'm sure she'd understand.

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[californiagirl]

CCK- how about some north to south trades??? or, since I'm unfamiliar with the wines from your area of Wa., names of wineries to try that I might be able to find in Sacramento?

thanks =-)

[Innkeeper]

Popped bottle #2 last night and took Foodie's suggestion about the smoke. We got ahold of two two inch think locally smoked pork chops at the Belfast Coop. We gilled them for 20 minutes over a low charcoal fire with mesquite chips. They we the best smoked pork chops we have ever had. Fantastic. They wine complemented them perfectly. All that and resveratrol too! Can life get any better?

[Thomas]

Only if you double the intake--and keep taking my advice [img]http://wines.com/ubb2/eek.gif[/img]

[Innkeeper]

Last of the three bottles with hickory smoked salmon fillet last night. Simply wonderful. Too bad they don't ship.

[Innkeeper]

Picked up a case from a NYS retailer. Popped the first Saturday with sauteed boneless pork chops slathered with Carolina Red Sauce. Excellent.

[Innkeeper]

Another tonight after getting back from an overnight down to Portland. Very nice. Oh! It was with salami and cheese sandwiches.

[Innkeeper]

Yet another tonight with gillpanned pork cutlets well seasoned, and salad in vinaigrette. Went quite well with this version.

[Innkeeper]

Yadda, yadda, yadda. Simply wonderful.

[Innkeeper]

Hum, hum. Ok, had one tonight with ravioli in our Italian Tomato Sauce. Didn't have any Italian wine so went this way because of the acid. Also had salad with blue cheese dressing and the LAST of our own tomatoes. We had a lousy growing season like most of the Northeast, so harvested 90% of my Yellow Plums after the first frost. Almost all of them rippened up. They rippened faster than we could eat them, so after salvaging just enough for the salad tonight, had to throw out two rotted lbs of them. Sigh!

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[Innkeeper]

This turned out to be our primary Christmas Wine too. Due to the fact that fifteen members of our nuclear family would be in attendance, and the fact that our goose lady stopped raising them, we went with a ham this year. An 18.8 lb from W.A. Bean's in Bangor cost us the same price as a 12 lb goose would have, and probably would not have fed us. The ham was fantastic; I couldn't slice it fast enough. Still had enough left left over to bring some home with us. The Pinot was well applauded, and we had a 2003 Chateau de la Guimoniere Rose d'Anjou ($9.25 Blue Hill Wine Shop) for the "pinkies." Had a glass of the later, after the Pinot ran out it. Forgetting that it was an '03, I was shocked out of my pants. It was what could reasonably called a "huge" rose'; right up there with Roberto's Cerasuolos. Might have to check out more of the '03s Lories.

At any rate, we had a great time at Christmas, with only a modicum of difficulties.

[Innkeeper]

Finished the last of our Salmon Run Pinot with the New York appellation last night with lovely smoked pork chops. Unfortunately they lost much of there young vines that gave us the high resveratrol wine in the '03-'04 winter. The current bottling carries the American appellation, so we are staying away for a while.