Cooper Hill Pinot Noir 2007
I hated the ‘06 of this wine, but I can’t get enough of the ‘07. It smells like purple flowers with yellow stamens and a fuzzy, freshly sliced peach. It tastes like cranberries and cherries with a hint of strawberry seed. It’s colorful yet translucent like all good Pinot, and it feels electric in the mid-palate. The end lacks a blockbuster, 10 minute finish, but this is the very very low end of Pinot Noir.
For those of you that don’t know: PINOT NOIR IS EXPENSIVE… Why? The grapes and grape clusters are tiny so the winemaker gets very little juice to work with per acre so he/she has to charge a premium since their accountants are all yelling at them, “Why aren’t you going Merlot?!?!? We’re trying to make money here while you are trying to make art!” $15 for a pinot is *really* cheap. $15 for a cab can get you some pretty good stuff. In fact $20 for a Cab can create fantastic results. $20 for a Pinot only ensures that you *might* not fail.
Luckily, this Pinot lands everything but the knockout punch, and it tastes like a $23 bottle.
$15.99 at T.B. Ackerson 8.4/10