Cristom Louise Vineyard Pinot Noir, Eola-Amity Hills, USA

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The Louise Vineyard Pinot Noir (1996 is this parcel's second crop) is ruby-colored and has sweet aromas reminiscent of cherry-flavored Kool-Aid and perfume. This seductively ripe and velvety offering is crammed with sugar-coated red fruits, oak spices, and traces of cinnamon. It will also be at its best between 1999 and 2003. Cristom was operating on all cylinders in 1996. I tasted the estate's four Pinots three times (once at the winery, and twice in Washington, DC) and loved them on each. Paul Gerrie, Cristom's owner, and Steve Doerner, its winemaker, are committed to crafting Burgundian-styled wines with finesse and sweet, well-ripened fruit. Neither is a fan of what they referred to as "the over-powering Burgundies now in vogue", preferring to make their wines in what they define as a classical style. They tend to utilize 50% whole clusters for their indigenous yeast-driven alcoholic fermentations. If it is a particularly cool vintage in which the stems are unripe, the percentage of stems is reduced to 30%. Tel. (503) 375-3068. Bravo!